RESTRAINTS ON ALIENATION-RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS-RACIAL DISCRIMINATION

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Abstract

Three cases decided in 1925 in three widely separated parts of the United States, namely, California, Michigan, and the District of Columbia, raise the question: How far may one give legal effect to his racial prejudices through the medium of covenants and conditions inserted in wills and inter vivos conveyances? An attempt was made in each of these cases to restrict the use or sale of the property involved to white persons or to deny it to colored persons. Two of the cases upheld the restriction; one declared it invalid.

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RESTRAINTS ON ALIENATION-RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS-RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, 24 Mich. L. Rev. 840 (1926).
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