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Your guard will give you time and opportunity to execute a quitclaim in Mr. Stair's favor." "Is that all?" I asked. "No; after that our ways must lie apart or yours and Margery's, at all events. Give me your word of honor that you relinquish any claim you have, or think you have, upon her, and I pass this letter on to the ensign." "And if I refuse?"
And yet Egbert Crawford was really visiting that den of black squalor with a very different object to find an old darkey woman who was reported as living in that street, and in his capacity as one of the eleven hundred and fifty Commissioners of Deeds of the City and County of New York, to procure her "X mark" and take her acknowledgment in the little matter of a quitclaim deed.
An illustrative quitclaim deed from the same records reads as follows: "This bargen made and entered into by the following parties Viz this day I James Williams has bargened and sold to Philo Costly a certain claim lying on the E side of Rapid Creek boundrys of said claim as follows commencing at a white Oak tree standing about 80 Rods below the upper forks of Rapid Creek thence running south 1/2 mile thence E 1 mile to a stake standing on the Prairie near 2 Trees. thence N 1/2 mile to a stake thence W. 1 mile to the starting place I the said Williams agree and bind myself to defend all rights & claims excepting the claim of the general Government and also singular all rights claims & Interests to said claim for and in concideration of the sum of one hundred Dollars the receipt thereof I here in acknowledge said Williams agrees to put up a House and finish Except putting up the Chimney & dobing and also said Williams is to Haul out Eight or Ten hundred rails all included for the receipt above mentioned.
For the sake of peace, the latter offered to purchase the territory of Baltimore; but the baron would not sell it. Penn then assured the Duke that Lord Baltimore's claim was "against law, civil and common." The duke gladly assented to the opinion, and the worldly-wise Quaker obtained from his grace a quitclaim deed for the territory, now comprising the whole of the State of Delaware.
Only, there are some titles which may not be negotiated. A quitclaim is by no means a warranty. You'll discover that." He smiled grimly. The other made no answer. He only stood to his full height and stretched out his great arms. He seemed a figure come down unchanged from some savage day. Alone in her state-room all these hours, Josephine St.
"'Tis the merest matter of form, as ye may say, for your title to Appleby Hundred is well burnt out, I promise you. But for the decent look of it you might make over your quitclaim to your wife." "Aye, truly; so I might." "And so you should, sir; that you should, ye miserable, spying runag" he choked and coughed behind his hand and then began again without the epithets.
I cannot reason with these men, continued the Judge, 'for I confess, at once, that I cannot demonstrate, either by logic or by mathematics, a modern quitclaim or warranty in holding slaves. In combating their illogical and unscriptural positions, I seem to them to be an advocate of the divine right of oppression, which I am not.
So Kovak turned the plans of the robbery over to Bryson's boys in exchange for a quitclaim on the money he owed, and Bryson just forwarded it all on to the police. They were waiting for us when we showed up." That cleared Gainer, Alan thought in some relief. "How did you find all this out?" "Bryson himself told me." "What!" "I guess he didn't know exactly who besides Max was in on the deal.
See, there's the papers the quitclaim all drawn up and signed." He drew the roll of paper from his pocket again, apparently forgetful of the adjacent weapon. "Look here, 'Lige," said Harkutt, with a business-like straightening of his lips, "I ain't buyin' any land in Tasajara, least of all yours on the creek. I've got more invested here already than I'll ever get back again.
Well, you get the right idea for the first thing. Honest men wanted; no questions asked. And then what?" "Money." "You've said it, kid! We could quitclaim that hill for a million cash to-morrow " "If we had any claim to quit," interrupted Stanley; "and if we could drag capital out here and rub its nose in our hill." "That's the word I was feelin' for capital.
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