Chapter LI

§1. What is the benefit of a deed of real estate? What is expressed in a deed? How is it executed?

§2. What is necessary to secure possession to the purchaser? Where are conveyances recorded in this state?

§3. How long, in come states, are first purchasers secure before recording? What is the law in this state? What claim does a purchaser thus dispossessed still retain? Can you tell why conveyances are required to be recorded at all?

§4. How are deeds proved? Before whom are thoy acknowledged? How are they recorded?

§5. What is meant by _fee-simple_? What does the grantor in a warranty deed bind himself to do? In what does such deed differ from a quit-claim deed?

§6. What is a mortgage? How is the balance of the purchase money usually secured? How is the money raised?

§7. Why does a wife join with her husband in a conveyance? What is the interest thus retained by a widow called? In what else must a wife join? Does a wife acknowledge apart from her husband in this state?