No prescribed form is essential to the validity of a deed to lands or personalty. If the deed is sufficient in itself to make known the transaction between the parties, no want of form will invalidate it.
History. Laws 1768, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 163; Laws 1785, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 164; Code 1863, § 2651; Code 1868, § 2650; Code 1873, § 2692; Code 1882, § 2692; Civil Code 1895, § 3602; Civil Code 1910, § 4182; Code 1933, § 29-104.
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Chapter 5 - Acquisition and Loss of Property
§ 44-5-30. Requisites of Deed to Lands; Inquiry Into Consideration
§ 44-5-31. Requisites of Deed to Personalty; Necessity for Deed
§ 44-5-32. Requisites of Instruments Other Than Deeds
§ 44-5-34. Construction of Inconsistent Clauses in Deed; Ascertainment of Intention of Parties
§ 44-5-35. Apportionment of Price for Deficiency in Number of Acres; Rescission
§ 44-5-36. Purchaser’s Remedies for Loss of Land Due to Title Defect
§ 44-5-38. Effect of Recital in Deed of Receipt of Purchase Money
§ 44-5-39. Binding Effect of Covenants on Grantee Who Accepts Deed
§ 44-5-40. Conveyance of Future Interests or Estates
§ 44-5-41. Voidance and Ratification of Conveyance to or by a Minor
§ 44-5-42. Delivery of Deed to Third Party as Escrow; Possession as Proof of Delivery
§ 44-5-43. Effect of Adverse Possession on Making of Deed
§ 44-5-44. Estoppel From Claiming Adversely to Own Deed
§ 44-5-46. Establishment of Copy of Deed Upon Loss of Original; Effect of Copy
§ 44-5-47. Liability of Purchaser for Costs of Conveyance
§ 44-5-48. Deeds Conveying Interest in Real Property Used as Commercial Landfill