Court Opinion

ID: 9810325
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 21:47:05.314612+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:39:50.285405
License: Public Domain

Siiiophebd, C. J.,
concurring: As the purchaser under the execution sale seems, in the opinion, to be assimilated to a mortgagee under the Act of 1885,1 desire to express my disapproval of any inference which may possibly be made to the effect that the said act was intended to abrogate the well-known principle that the rights of such a purchaser or of a judgment creditor shall not prevail over any equities existing against the judgment debtor. This principle occupies too important a place in our jurisprudence to be repealed by implication. The act simply provides that no unregistered conveyances, contracts to convey, or leases for more than three years “ shall be valid to pass any property” as against creditors (that is, docketed judgment creditors) and purchasers for value; and it clearly has no application to defences not based alone upon such unregistered conveyances, etc., and which attached to the property while in the hands of the judgment debtor.