57 Mass. 469 | Mass. | 1849
The first question which arises is, whether the master could lawfully order the estate to be sold on the petition of Hyde; Hunnewell then having a conveyance of the equity of redemption, and Hughes, the insolvent, having no title to the estate. If the master had such power, it must be derived from St. 1838, c. 163, § 3. If the master could make such sale, then Hunnewell, who held the equity of redemption, would be deprived of the right which the law gives him to redeem the estate within three years by paying off the mortgage; that is, he would be deprived of the three years allowed by law to redeem.
If the third section of the statute of 1838 gives the master power to sell a mortgaged estate absolutely, when a third person other than the insolvent has the equity, then it must se held to repeal pro tanto by implication the law which allows the holder of the equity of redemption three years to
The following order was made by the court in this case : —
It is ordered, &c., that the order of the master, directing a sale of said estate, be amended so as to read as follows, to wit: —
Ordered, that the assignees of said George Hughes do and they are heiebj