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Property Law CUNY Spring 2021
Resource 5 . 2 . 2 . 3
8 minutes

Rosengrant v Rosengrant

Rebecca Bratspies

Why didn't handing the deed around that suffice as effective delivery in this case?

This case should take you back to Gruen v. Gruen. Why was there effective delivery in that case but not here?

Do you agree with the court that the Rosengrants should/could have given their nephew the deed for immediate recordation?  How did that course of action differ from their expressed intent? Was there another way they could have made an effective gift? 

Notice that this is a problem that would not arise in an ordinary commercial, arms-length transaction.  

Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals
629 P.2d 800
No. 52761
1981-03-31

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