It is a general and well settled principle that the assignee of a chose in action takes it subject to the same equity it was subject to in the hands of the assignor, but this rule is generally understood to mean the equity residing in the original obligor... Kirchwey's Cases on the Law of Mortgage - Page 538by George Washington Kirchwey - 1917 - 764 pagesFull view - About this book
| Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 692 pages
...it discharged of the equity, has no application in the case of the purchaser of a chose in action. It is a general and well-settled principle that the assignee of a chose in action fakes it subject to the same equity it was subject to in the hands of the assignor." It was further... | |
| Leonard Augustus Jones - Bonds - 1890 - 696 pages
...at law, yet if it contains anything to show that the parties intended to renounce the ordinary rule that the assignee of a chose in action takes it subject to the equities between the original parties, or if the company making it has held it out to the world as... | |
| William John Tossell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 940 pages
...governed by equitable rules for its protection and enforcement. "It is undoubtedly the general rule that the assignee of a chose in action takes it subject to all the equities existing against it in the hands of his assignor, and can acquire no greater right... | |
| William John Tossell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 700 pages
...in favor of third parties." In Murray v. Lylburn, 2 Johns. Ch., 441, Chancellor Kent quotes the rule that the assignee of a chose in action takes it subject to the same equity to which it was subject in the hands of the assignor, and adds "but this rule is generally understood... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 1218 pages
...not, he took it subject to all equities existius: between Struthers and the mortgage company, on the principle that the assignee of a chose in action takes it subject to equities existing between the parties. The principle is elementary, and does not require the citation... | |
| William Willis - Bills of exchange - 1896 - 272 pages
...Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce which Lord Cottenham had reversed. But although the rule in equity is that the assignee of a chose in action takes it subject to the equities subsisting between the assignor and his debtor, yet the Chancery judges have gone a step further... | |
| Robert Campbell, Irving Browne - Annotations and citations (Law) - 1896 - 932 pages
...415; Fairbanks v. Sargent, 104 New York, 108; 58 Am. Rep. 490 : " It is undoubtedly the general rule that the assignee of a chose in action takes it subject to all the equities existing against it in the hands of his assignor, and can acquire no greater right... | |
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