Is a purchaser bound by his acceptance of title to a property when the purchaser has not yet completed the contract?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Strickee v. Ruckeman, 1914 CanLII 288 (SK QB):
In Bousfield v. Hodges, 33 Beav., at p. 90, the purchaser accepted the title, but having delayed in completing his contract, this suit was instituted against him for specific performacne. At p. 94 I find the following:— "As to acceptance of title, I assent to this proposition, that a purchaser is only bound by his acceptance of the title so far as he is made cognizant of it, and that if anything is kept back by the vendor he is not as to that bound by his acceptance."
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