THE VENDEE'S LIEN- ON LAND AND CHATTELS

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Abstract

The vendee's lien is now firmly established as an equitable device to insure full restitution to the purchaser of land on his rescission for the vendor's fraud or default. It first appeared in a dictum in an early English case where it was suggested as a possible analogy to the implied vendor's lien for the purchase money. But it was 1855 before the question was presented squarely to an English court of record, and 1860 when the House of Lords definitely approved it. Long before this, however, courts of equity in the United States had begun to μse this device in land contract cases, apparently without reliance on the early English dictum.

Recommended Citation

THE VENDEE'S LIEN- ON LAND AND CHATTELS, 33 Mich. L. Rev. 108 (1934).
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