How To Buy And Sell Real Estate At A Profit | by W. A. Carney

A Handbook for Everyone Interested in the Subject of Real Estate

Title	How To Buy And Sell Real Estate At A Profit
Author	W. A. Carney
Publisher	W. A. Carney
Year	1905
Copyright	1905, W. A. Carney
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How to Buy and Sell Real Estate at a Profit

By W. A. Carney

Author of "New Secretary's Manual"

Preface: In this book the author has endeavored to collect, classify and arrange in an orderly manner information and practical forms relating to the acquisition, ownership and disposition of real estate. So f...

Chapter I. Of Real Estate In General: Property Defined - Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments; - Fixtures, Appurtenances and Estates; - Ownership - Title; - Sources of Title - Acquisition of Land-Limitations of the Subject. Section I. Prop...

Of Real Estate In General. Continued: Sec. 13. Real Property in each State is governed by the law of that State, except as to property the title to which is in the government of the United States. Sec. 14. Community Property is that acqu...

Chapter II. Thrift, Or Accumulation Of Capital: Real Estate the Highest Form of Property-Real Estate a Necessity - The Acquisition of Property Implies Moral and Intellectual Qualities - Capital is Needed to Acquire Property - Capital the Result of ...

Chapter III. How And Where To Buy: This Chapter Concerns City Lands and Country Lands - Importance of Close Buying - Exercising Good Judgment - What Good Judgment Consists of - Qualities Requisite in the Successful Operator - Most Succ...

How And Where To Buy. Part 2: Sec. 40. In buying real property, the buyer should keep in mind four important points, viz: (1.) The object or end for which the property is intended. (2.) If the property in question fulfills, or w...

How And Where To Buy. Part 3: Sec. 45. Where land is sold at so much per front foot, frontage, even though a lot be irregular in shape or shallow in depth, becomes the measure of increase in gain. The rate per front foot should al...

How And Where To Buy. Part 4: Sec. 53. It is quite important that the investor should be able to figure percentages. How to multiply a given amount by a certain rate and obtain a correct result, is comparatively easy, but how to a...

How And Where To Buy. Part 5: Sec. 59. The desirable farming lands in the United States are steadily growing more valuable. There has been an astonishing demand for more land in northwest during the past few years. A prominent agr...

Form No. 1 - Real Estate Purchase Chart: Official Description of Premises is: Known as No. ..., ......... street, between ........ street and......... street, on ......... side of street. Fronts......... Size of lot......... feet. Building ...

Chapter IV. Options And Purchase Agreements: Contract Defined - Certain Contracts Invalid Unless in Writing - Contract Must Contain the Whole Agreement - Excludes All Prior Negotiations - Seller Must Produce Marketable Title - Performance or Te...

Options And Purchase Agreements. Continued: Sec. 69. Where the contract is for value, and is made by persons competent on both sides to bind themselves, gives rights which the parties may mutually enforce against each other, and its enforcement...

Form No. 2 - Brief Memorandum Of Sale: Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 5th, 1905. Received of George Blish, the sum of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), being a deposit and part payment on Lot Thirty-three (33) in Block Fifteen (15) of the Downey T...

Form No. 3 - A More Complete Memorandum Of Sale: Memorandum of Sale, in duplicate, made this 10th day of February, 1905, between and for the account of Hiram Balch, the Seller, to Samuel Smith, the Buyer, by Byron & Clark, agents, of the following d...

Form No. 4 - A Formal Agreement. Agreement For Sale Of Real Estate: This agreement, made and entered into this 20th day of June, A. D. 1905, by and between Frank Smith, of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, hereafter called the vendor, the part...

Form No. 5 - Agreement For Sale Of Lots, And Providing For Building Restrictions, Etc: This Agreement, made and entered into, in duplicate, this tenth day of June, 1905, between James A. Garfield, the party of the first part hereto, and Alfred A. Spinks, the party of the second part; W...

Form No. 6 - Brief Option: Denver, Colo., June 10th, 1905. Received of C. B. True, the sum of Two Hundred Dollars, as part payment for the following described Real Estate, to-wit: Lot 7, in Block 10, of the Marlin Tract, in th...

Form No. 7 - Formal Option, Providing For Monthly Payments: This Option and Agreement, in duplicate, dated this 19th day of February, 1905, made by and between Joel Jenkins, of the County of Los Angeles, State of California, party of the first part, and the B...

Form No. 8 - Assignment Of Contract Of Sale: Know All Men by These Presents, that I, Alfred A. Spinks, of the County of Los Angeles, State of California, in consideration of the sum of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), Gold Coin of the United State...

Form No. 9 - Assignment To Be Annexed To Instrument: Know All Men by These Presents, that I, Alfred A. Spinks, named in the annexed instrument, in consideration of the sum of One Hundred and Fifty Dollars, Gold Coin of the United States, to me in hand p...

Form No. 10 - Assignment Indorsed Upon An Instrument: For Value Received, I do hereby sell, assign, transfer and set over to Silas Shocking, his heirs and assigns forever, all my right, title, and interest, in, to, and under the within instrument, and to...

Form No. 11 - Title Bond For Mining Property: Know All Men by These Presents, that John Collins and Patrick Murphey, of the County of Lake, and State of Colorado, are held and firmly bound unto T. S. Eaton, his heirs, executors, administrators an...

Form No. 12. - Copy Of Resolution Of Board Of Directors Of Corporation, Authorizing The Giving Of An Option: Resolved, That the Blue Bird Oil Company, a corporation, give Bernard Baker & Co., real estate brokers, the exclusive option and privilege of purchasing from this corporation, at any time on or before...

Chapter V. Deeds: Deed Defined - Essential Requisites of - Orderly Parts of - The Several Kinds of Deeds - Two Estates in One Parcel of Land; Deeds Conveying Same - Control of Husband - Corporation Deeds - Ratification...

Deeds. Continued: (c.) In California, it is not lawful for the Directors of any mining corporation - including oil mining companies - to sell, lease, mortgage or otherwise dispose of the whole or any part of the mining...

Form No. 13. - An Analyzed Deed: (a) Date. This Indenture, made the 10th day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and five, (b) Parties. Between James W. Robertson, an unmarried man, of the Town of Co-vin...

Form No. 13. - An Analyzed Deed. Part 2: And that said premises now are free, clear, discharged and unincumbered, of and from all former and other grants, titles, charges, estates, judgments, taxes, assessments and incumbrances, of what natu...

Form No. 13. - An Analyzed Deed. Part 3: In California the use of the word grant in any conveyance by which an estate of fee simple or inheritance is to be passed, implies on the part of the grantor, for himself and his heirs, to the grant...

Form No. 13. - An Analyzed Deed. Part 4: The phraseology of a deed conveying the life estate to one person, with the remainder to another, would be as follows: To Have and to Hold all and singular, the above granted premises, together with...

Form No. 14 - Quitclaim Deed: This Indenture, made the tenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, between Frank Wright, of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, the party o...

Form No. 15 - Deed From Husband To Wife. Deed Of Gift: This Indenture, made the 5th day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and five, between Leander Lilly, of the County of Los Angeles, State of California, the party of the first part, and...

Form No. 16 - Mining Deed: This Indenture, Made the 10th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, between Abner Parmely, Alonzo Jones, Charles O'Hara and Jerome Curtis, of the County of Ventura,...

Form No. 17 - Deed To County For Right Of Way For Road: State of California, County of Santa Barbara, ss. Whereas, Jesse Hall, James Roach, N. O. Nelson and Elmer Stearns, inhabitants of Road District number Ten of Santa Barbara County, taxable therein fo...

Form No. 18 - Certified Copy Of Resolution Prefixed To Deed Of Corporation Conveying Agricultural Rights: Resolved, That this Corporation, Blue Bird Oil Company, sell to Oliver Owlett, in consideration of Ten Dollars ($10.00) and other good and valuable considerations, all the right, title and interest of...

Form No. 19 - Deed From Individuals To Corporation, Conveying Mining Rights, Together With Stockholder's Ratification Of Acquisition Of Same: This Indenture, Made this 20th day of March, A. D. 1905, by and between John Kingsley and Ella Kingsley, his wife, of the County of Los Angeles, State of California, parties of the first part, and Blu...

Form No. 20. - Certified Copy Of Resolution Of Corporation, Authorizing Officers To Execute Deeds: State of California, County of Los Angeles, ss. I, David Davis, do hereby certify that I am Secretary of the Union Land Company, a corporation, organized and existing under the laws of the State of C...

Form No. 21 - Deed To Be Immediately Delivered, But Reserving Life Estate: This Indenture, made the ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, between Henry Hatfield, of the County of Los Angeles, State of California, the party of the fir...

Form No. 22 - General Acknowledgment. (California.): State of California, County of Los Angeles, ss. On this thirteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Five, before me, Harry Henry, a Notary Public in and for said C...

Form No. 23 - Corporation Acknowledgment. (California.): State of California, County of Los Angeles, ss. On this second day of February, A. D. 1903, before me, N. W. Tilden, a Notary Public in and for the said County of Los Angeles, State of California, du...

Form No. 24. - Party Proven On Oath Of Credible Witness, And Acknowledgment Of Party. (California.): State of California, County of Los Angeles, ss. On this twelfth day of April, in the year Nineteen Hundred and Five, before me, Samuel Bristow, a Notary Public in and for the said County of Los Angel...

Form No. 25 - Acknowledgment - Attorney-In-Fact: State of California, County of Los Angeles, ss. On this tenth day of April, in the year Nineteen Hundred and Five, before me, Samuel Bristow, a Notary Public in and for said County of Los Angeles, St...

Form No. 26 - Subscribing Witness: State of California, County of Los Angeles, ss. On this tenth day of April, in the year Nineteen Hundred and Five, before me, Samuel Bristow, a Notary Public in and for said County of Los Angeles, St...

Chapter VI. Making A Loan, Including Execution Of Mortgages And Deeds Of Trust: Lord Burleigh's Advice on Making a Loan - Keeping Accounts with Banks - Applying For a Loan - Cringing Applicants Receive Few Financial Favors - Loans From Building and Loan Associations - Executing M...

Making A Loan, Including Execution Of Mortgages And Deeds Of Trust. Continued: Sec. 100. If the application is granted, the borrower is required to execute a note and mortgage in form required by the lender, and to furnish, at expense of borrower, a certificate or abstract of ti...

Form No. 27 - Application For A Loan - Savings Bank. Application For Loan: I do hereby apply to the Security Savings Bank of Los Angeles, Cal., for a loan of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000) for a term of three years, at 6 per cent interest per annum, to be paid quarterly from ...

Form No. 28 - Mortgage And Mortgage Note: This Mortgage, Made the thirteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Four, by M. C. Cuddeback, an unmarried man, of the City and County of Los Angeles, State of Cali...

Form No. 30 - Interest Notice: security savings bank. Los Angeles, Cal., July 3d, 1904 M. C. Cuddeback, Esq., 1306 Santee Street, City. Dear Sir: - There will be due on July 13, 1904, interest to the amount of $30 on your note in...

Form No. 31 - Full Satisfaction Of Mortgage: Know All Men by These Presents : That M. T. Brooks does hereby certify and declare that a certain mortgage, bearing date the 3d day of March, 1904, made and executed by Amos Judd, the party of the fir...

Form No. 32 - Assignment Of Mortgage: Know All Men by These Presents: That E. J. Troxler, of the County of Orange, State of California, the party of the first part, for and in consideration of the sum of Ten Dollars, Gold Coin of the Unit...

Form No 33 - Application For A Loan - Building And Loan Association. Loan No......: To the Board of Directors of the State Mutual Building and Loan Asso ciation, of Los Angeles, California: Gentlemen : - I desire to obtain from your Association a loan of Fifteen Hundred Dol...

Form No. 34 - Deed Of Trust To Secure Note: This Deed of Trust, Made this 10th day of June, Nineteen Hundred and Three, between Eliza Donovan, an unmarried woman, of Los Angeles, California, the party of the first part, and the Title Insurance ...

Form No 35 - Reconveyance Of Trust Property: This Indenture, Made this 4th day of February, A. D. 1906, wit-nesseth: That, whereas, the promissory note, for the sum of Thirteen Hundred ($1300) Dollars, with interest, mentioned as secured by that...

Form No. 36 - Agreement To Extend Mortgage And Increase Rate Of Interest: This Agreement, made in duplicate, this second day of March, 1904, between E. J. Blair, of the County of Los Angeles, State of California, the party of the first part, and M. T. Brooks, of the County ...

Form No. 37 - Installment Note: $2000.00. Los Angeles, Cal., February 10, 1905. On February 10th, 1906, at 12 o'clock noon of said day, for value received, I promise to pay to Yon Yonson or order, at American National Bank, the sum...

Form No 38 - Affidavit To Personal Property Mortgage: State of.......................... County of................................ the Mortgagor.. in the foregoing Mortgage, named, and.................. ...................................................

Chapter VII. Transfer Of Title In Escrow. Taxes And Insurance: Escrow Defined - Risks Attending Transfers in the Ordinary Private Way - Abstract Defined - What it Consists of - The Work of the Searcher of Title - limited and Unlimited Certificates of Title Define...

Transfer Of Title In Escrow. Taxes And Insurance. Part 2: Sec. 114. Certificates of title may be limited or unlimited. A Limited Certificate commences at a certain date, such as the record of the decree in a suit for partition or the like, as may be indicate...

Transfer Of Title In Escrow. Taxes And Insurance. Part 3: Sec. 119. The liability of a title company or of an abstracter of records is to the party employing it or him and not to any one else. The person named in the certificate, or abstract, as he at whose ...

Form No. 39 - Escrow Instructions Of Seller: Order No. 157,311. Los Angeles, Cal., April 10, 1905. Title Insurance and Trust Company: Gentlemen : - I herewith hand you a grant, bargain and sale deed executed by Walter Scott to Jules Verne, an...

Form No. 40-Escrow Instructions Of Buyer: Escrow No. 30777. Los Angeles, Cal., April 11, 1905. Title Insurance and Trust Co.: Herewith please find check for $5000 which you are authorized to use in connection with your order No. 157,311 whe...

Form No. 41 - Tax Release Of Mortgagor: Los Angeles, August 11, 1905. In consideration of the release of the mortgage recorded in Book 1470, page 233 of Mortgages, Los Angeles County Records, I hereby agree to release and save harmless Jule...

Form No. 42 - Interest Rebate Agreement: Los Angeles, California, April 10, 1905. For a Valuable Consideration, I hereby agree to deduct three per cent per annum from the interest on the mortgage note for the principal sum of $3000 in my fa...

Form No. 43 - Application To County Board Of Equalization: To the Honorable Board of Equalization in and for Los Angeles County, California, for the Year 1904. The application of.................. respectfully represents that he is the owner and party affect...

Form No 44 - Escrow Agreement And Instructions To Bank: Know All Men by These Presents, that Hiram White, of the County of Ventura, State of California, the party of the first part, hereinafter designated as the vendor, and William Willard, of the County a...

Form No. 46 - Bank Escrow Envelope: ESCROW. Ventura, Cal., July 29, 1905. HIRAM WHITE and WILLIAM WILLARD. Deliver the enclosures on payment of $5000 if paid by or before November I, 1905. Should parties fail to pay as agreed, retu...

Form No. 45 - Envelope For Keeping Escrow Papers And Account: Sale No............... Escrow No................ Owner, Telephone............ Purchaser, Telephone............ .................................................................... ...................

Form No. 47 - Unlimited Certificate Of Title: Incorporated December 20th, 1893. Cable Address, Title Trust. TITLE INSURANCE AND TRUST COMPANY Capital Stock (Paid Up) $500,000. Corner Franklin and New High Streets. Los Angeles, Cal..............

Form No. 48 - Owner's Policy Of Title Insurance: Los Angeles, Cal............... Amount, $2000 Policy No. 3610 Order No. 120636 OWNER's GUARANTEE POLICY OF TITLE INSURANCE In consideration of the sum of One Dollar and other valuable consideration...

Chapter VIII. Homes And Homesteads: What the True Home Should Be - Buying Versus Building - Selecting the Lot - Plan of the House - The Rough Sketch - Preliminary Drawing - Estimating the Cost - Plans and Specifications - Obtaining Bids...

Homes And Homesteads. Part 2: (9.) Four copies of the plans and specifications should be prepared; blue prints of the plans are made from the original tracing paper drawing, and carbon copies of the specifications are made on the ...

Homes And Homesteads. Part 3: (16.) If a contractor ceases labor on an unfinished building, the owner must, within forty days thereafter, file a notice. (See Form No. 52.) The two last named notices are to be filed in the office o...

Form No. 49 - Builder's Contract. Articles Of Agreement: Made this eleventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and five, between W. W. Jones, of the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California, the party of the first part, and C....

Form No. 50 - Builders' Bond. Builders' Bond To Owner: Whereas, C. N. Stratton, of the County of Los Angeles, State of California, described therein as party of the second part, or contractor, and W. W. Jones, of the County and State aforesaid, described ...

Form No. 51 - Notice Of Completion: State of California, County of Los Angeles, ss. W. W. Jones, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is now, and was upon the nth day of February, 1905, the owner in fee simple of that cert...

Form No. 52 - Notice Of Abandonment: State of California, County of Los Angeles, ss. Hiram White, being first duly sworn, deposes and says, that he is now and was on the second day of June, 1905, the owner of that certain real property ...

Form No. 53 - Notice To Owner To Withhold Monies From Contractor: MECHANICS' LIEN. - NOTICE TO OWNER. C. C. P., Sec. 1184. John Joiner vs. Solomon Shylock. State of California, County of Los Angeles, ss. To Solomon Shylock, the reputed owner of the two-story, sev...

Form No. 54-Material Man's Lien. Notice Of Lien Material Man: Percy Woodman, doing business under the firm name and style of Woodman Lumber Co., vs. Century Building Company, a Corporation. State of California, County of Los Angeles, ss. Notice is hereby given,...

Form No. 55 - Mechanic's Lien. Notice Of Lien Laborer: John Joiner vs. Solomon Shylock. State of California, County of Los Angeles, ss. Notice is hereby given, that John Joiner, at the time hereinafter mentioned, performed labor upon and in the construct...

Form No. 56 - Notice By Owner That He Will Not Be Responsible For Improvements. Notice By Owner: Notice is Hereby Given to all whom it may concern, that the undersigned is the owner of the land on which this notice is posted, to-wit: Lot ...., in Block ...., in the City of Los Angeles, County of ...

Form No. 57 - Declaration Of Homestead By Husband: Know All Men by These Presents: That I do hereby certify and declare that I am married and that I do now, at the time of making this declaration, actually reside with my family on the land and premise...

Form No. 58 - Declaration Of Homestead By Wife: Know All Men by These Presents : That I..................... do hereby certify and declare that I am married and am the wife of ..........................; that my husband..............................

Form No. 59 - Abandonment Of Homestead: Know All Men by These Presents: That we.................. and..........................., husband and wife....................... do......hereby abandon, release and discharge from any and all claim...

Chapter IX. Miscellaneous Matters Affecting Real Estate: Easements - Rights of Way and Party Walls - Leases - Rights of Landlord and Tenant - Notices Where Time Is, or Is Not, Agreed Upon - Leases of Dwellings, Farm Lands, Oil Lands and Contract for Drillin...

Sec. 126. Easements: (1.) An easement is a right in the owner of one parcel of land to use the land of another for some special purpose; as where A, who owns land which does not reach to the public road, secures from B a ...

Sec. 127. Of Leases: (1.) A lease is a conveyance of lands or tenements for a certain length of time by the owner, who, in such case, is called the landlord or lessor, to another person, called the lessee or tenant, for a...

Sec. 128. Appropriating Water: (1.) The doctrine of appropriation of water from streams;s peculiar to the Western States, and owes its origin to the necessities of the arid region. The doctrine is that the unappropriated waters of ...

Sec. 129. Powers of Attorney: (1.) A power of attorney is a written authorization executed by one person, called the principal, directing another person, called the attorney in fact, to perform some act or acts for the principal. ...

Sec. 130. Torrens Land Titles: In 1897 the California Legislature passed an act to provide for the certification of land titles in accordance with the Torrens system, but the system has not become popular, for the reason, perhaps, ...

Sec. 131. Locating Mining Lands: (1.) The public lands of the United States, open to entry by citizens of the United States, over twenty-one years of age, are classified as agricultural, desert, timber, stone, coal, mineral and salin...

Sec. 132. Of Petitions: In some cases, easements for roads and rights of way, etc.. are to be obtained from public bodies, by means of petitions, and suggestions for these are set forth in Forms Nos. 81 and 82. ...

Sec. 133. Of Wills: (1.) A Will is a disposition of real and personal property by a person, called the testator, to take effect after his death. Every person of sound mind, and over eighteen years of age, may by his last...

Form No. 6a - Lease Of House Or Other Dwelling: This Lease and Agreement, made and entered into, in duplicate, this 16th day of August, A. D. 1905, by and between Allen H. Avery, the party of the first part, and Thomas B. Longstreet, the party of t...

Form No. 61 - Farm Lease "Mesa Lands" (California): This Agreement, made the 20th day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four, by and between S. J. Wise, of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, party ...

Form No. 62 - Farm Lease (Colorado): This Article of Agreement, Made and entered into by and between ..................party of the first part, lessor, and..................... party of the second part, lessee, witnesseth, that the sai...

Form No. 63 - Oil Lease (Colorado): This Agreement, made and entered into this 9th day of April, A. D. 1005, by and between Richard Reese of Kit Carson County, and State of Colorado, party of the first part, and James Morton of the Coun...

Form No. 64--Oil Lease (California): This Lease and Agreement, made and entered into, in duplicate, this 10th day of May, in the year A. D. 1905, by and between Alfred Benton and Jane Benton, his wife, of the County of Santa Barbara, Sta...

Form No. 64--Oil Lease (California). Part 2: 4th. It is further understood and agreed that the right and privilege hereby granted to drill or construct new wells, tunnels, or excavations for the development of said hydro-carbon substances upon s...

Form No. 64--Oil Lease (California). Part 3: nth. The party of the second part hereby covenants and agrees that in case of abandonment of any well, it shall and will use its best endeavors to shut off from the oil-bearing rock any and all water ...

Form No. 65 - Contract For Drilling Oil Wells: This Agreement, Made this 20th day of June, 1905, by and between M. L. Pembroke, of the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California, party of the first part, and Blue Bird Oil Comp...

Form No. 65 - Contract For Drilling Oil Wells. Continued: Drilling in Oil Sand: When each of said wells shall have reached the oil-bearing sand, or other rock or material bearing oil, the party of the second part shall prescribe the methods to be followed in...

Form No. 66 - Assignment Of Lease: Know All Men by These Presents: That I, Benjamin Butler, of the County of Ventura, State of California, in consideration of Ten Dollars, gold coin of the United States of America,, to me in hand paid ...

Form No. 67 - Notice To Change Terms Of Lease: To Owen Cruthers, Esq.: You are hereby notified that at the expiration of the present month of your tenancy, which will be on the fifteenth day of May, A. D. 1905, the terms of your lease of the prem...

Form No. 68 - Notice To Pay Rent Or Quit: To Samuel Jessup, Tenant in Possession: Within Three Days after the service on you of this notice, you are hereby required to Pay the rent of the premises hereinafter described, and which you now hol...

Form No. 69 - Notice Terminating Tenancy: To Thomas Shyrocks, Tenant in Possession: You are hereby notified that on the first day of September, A. D. 1905, your lease or tenancy for the premises you hold possession of, situate in the City an...

Form No. 70 - Notice Of Location Of Water Right: Notice is Hereby Given, that the undersigned, B. F. Sturgiss, of Hollister, San Benito County, California, has duly located and does hereby claim Sixteen (16) inches, measured under a four-inch pressu...

Form No. 71 - General Power Of Attorney: Know All Men by These Presents That I, Barney Barnato, of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, have made, constituted and appointed, and by these presents do make, constitute and...

Form No. 72 - Revocation Of Power Of Attorney: Know All Men by These Presents, That, whereas, I, Barney Barnato, of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, in and by my letter, warrant or power of attorney, in writing, bearing d...

Form No. 73 - Power Of Attorney To Collect Insurance: Know All Men by These Presents, That I, Edmund Fitzgerald, of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California, have nominated, constituted and appointed, and by these presents do nominate, con...

Form No. 74 - Power Of Attorney To Make Application For Patent For Mining Ground: Know All Men by These Presents: That we, Albert Stephens, C. M. Dent, Dennis Hoyt and Gilbert Doyle, do hereby constitute and appoint Andrew McTighe as our attorney in fact for us and in our names, to...

Form No. 75 - Power Of Attorney To Acquire Coal Land. Coal Lands. Power Of Attorney: Know All Men by These Presents, That I, L. D. Benton, of the County of Archuleta, State of Colorado, lhaving, under the provisions of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the sale of ...

Form No. 76 - Torrens Land Act - Notice Of Filing Petition: In the Superior Court of the County of........., State of California. No......... Department No......... In the Matter of the Application of........................to have land brought under the ope...

Form No. 77 - Torrens Land Act - Certificate Of Title: No......... CERTIFICATE OF TITLE. Entered in Vol.........of Register of Titles, Folium No......... in the office of the Registrar in and for the County of...........State of California. State of ...

Form No. 78 - Location Notice - Lode Or Quartz Claims, Location Notice: Notice is Hereby Given, that the undersigned, in compliance with the requirements of the Revised Statutes of the United States, have this day located and claim 1500 linear feet along the course of thi...

Form No. 79 - Location Notice Of Placer Claim. Location Notice: Notice is Hereby Given, that the undersigned, in compliance with the requirements of the Revised Statutes of the United States, have this day located the following described petroleum placer mining gr...

Form No. 80 - Affidavit As To Annual Assessment Work: Affidavit as to Assessment Work on the Oil Spouter Oil Claim in the year 1906. State of California, County of Ventura, ss. John Brown, being duly sworn, deposes and says: That the Oil Spouter Oil C...

Form No. 80 ½ - Affidavit And Notice Of Failure To Contribute: State of California, County of Ventura, ss. David Houston, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That that certain petroleum mining claim known as and called Sulphur Spur Oil Claim, containing...

Form No. 81 - Petition To City Council For Pipe Line: RIGHT OF WAY. Los Angeles, Cal., March 1, 1904. To the City Council of the City of Los Angeles, State of California: Gentlemen : - Your petitioner, the Starlight Refining Company, a corporation, re...

Form No. 82 - Petition To Establish County Road: WITH ACCOMPANYING BOND. To the Honorable Board of Supervisors of the County of Ventura, State of California: Gentlemen : - We, the undersigned, freeholders of...........Road District, in the County...

Form No. 83 - Party Wall Agreement. Party Wall Agreement: This Agreement, made this 10th day of April, 1905, by and between Hiram White, hereinafter described as the party of the first part, and William Willard, hereinafter described as the party of the seco...

Form No. 84 - Pipe Line Right Of Way: This Instrument Witnesseth : That Ventura Improvement Company, a corporation, organized and existing under the laws of the State of California, and having its principal place of business at the Town o...

Form No. 85 - Olographic Will Under California Law. Last Will And Testament Of Douglass Jerrold: I, Douglass Jerrold, do make, publish and declare this to be my last will and testament. I give, devise and bequeath to my beloved wife, Mary Jane Jerrold, all of my property, real, personal and mixe...

Form No. 86 - Written And Witnessed Will: LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF............ I, .........of........., in the County of.........and State of ............, being of sound mind and memory, do make, publish, and declare this to be my last w...

Chapter X. Subdivisions: Sales of Subdivisions are Remunerative Transactions - Outlines of the Several Methods of Handling Tracts - Making, Filing, Accepting, Endorsing and Recording Map - Gain on Lots in New Subdivisions Gen...

Form No. 87 - Contract Appointing Agents To Subdivide And Sell Property: This Agreement, made and entered into, in duplicate, this Tenth day of March, Nineteen Hundred and Five, by and between S. A. Belcher and Sarah Belcher, his wife, of the City of Los Angeles, County of...

Contract Appointing Agents To Subdivide And Sell Property. Continued: It is further agreed between the parties hereto that the parties of the second part shall at once and as continuously as practicable and without delay, survey and subdivide all of the land herein ment...

Form No. 88 - Declaration Of Trust As To Property Conveyed To Title Company To Be Subdivided And Sold: Declaration of trust. Know All Men by These Presents, that, Whereas, there has been conveyed by Q. A. Sawyer, of the County of Los Angeles, State of California, to the Title Insurance and Trust Compa...

Chapter XI. How And When To Sell: Sale Defined - Duty Assumed by Real Estate Broker - Is Entitled to His Commission Upon Producing Purchaser Able and Willing to Purchase on Vendor's Terms - Predicament of Vendor Who Does not R...

How And When To Sell. Continued: Sec. 149. If one wishes to dispose of a place by means of advertising, he can readily undertake the matter by placing an advertisement in the newspaper most likely to reach prospective buyers. Parties...

Form No. 89 - Owner's Agreement With Agent: Los Angeles, Cal...............190... To. Messrs....................... I hereby employ you as my sole agents for.........days from date, and thereafter until withdrawn, for the purpose of negotiati...

Form No. 90 - Agent's Agreement Of Sale: Los Angeles, Cal.............190.. Received from...............the sum of $......... as a deposit on account of the purchase of the following described real property situate in the...............Coun...

Form No. 91 - Bill Of Sale. Bill Of Sale: Know All Men by These Presents, that I, George W. Breed, of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California, the party of the first part, for and in consideration of the sum of fifty dollars, ...

Form No. 92 - Agreement Of Conditional Sale Of Personal Property: This Agreement, made this.........day of.........A. D. 190... between.........of........., the party of the first part, and........., of ........., the party of the second part, Witnesseth : That s...

Form No. 93 - Vendor's Notice Of Sale Of Goods In Bulk Vendor's Notice Of Sale: To Whom it May Concern: Notice is Hereby Given, That the undersigned..................... intend... to sell to............................all that certain stock of merchandise consisting generally o...

Chapter XII. Booms And Panics: Close Relation Exists Between the Buying and Selling of Real Estate and Booms and Panics - Boom First Affects Personal Property, then Real Estate - Seasons of Unexampled Prosperity Indicate Impending ...

Booms And Panics. Continued: When a man of business, therefore, hears on every side rumors of fortunes suddenly acquired; when he finds banks liberal and brokers busy; when he sees adventurers flush of paper capital and full of ...

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