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§ 3.

History: Adopted by convention, July 29, 1859; ratified by electors, October 4, 1859; L. 1861, p. 63; repealed, L. 1974, ch. 456, § 1; August 6, 1974.

Revisor's Note:

Section provided that title to property of religious corporations vested in trustees.

CASE ANNOTATIONS

1. Trustees proper persons to give mortgage. Cabbell v. Knote, 2 Kan. App. 68, 72, 43 P. 309.

2. Trustees personally liable on unauthorized covenant of warranty in conveyance. Klopp v. Moore, 6 Kan. 27.

3. Vesting of title on consolidating churches and changing trustees. Venable v. Baptist Church, 25 Kan. 177.

4. Title to and control of abandoned church property governed by church law. United Brethren, Etc., v. Mount Carmel Community Cemetery Ass'n, 152 Kan. 243, 248, 103 P.2d 877.

5. Title to all property of church is vested in its trustees. Watrous v. Limbocker, 140 Kan. 154, 157, 33 P.2d 938.

6. Rights of the parties to a mortgage given for funds to purchase church property construed. Federal Savings & Loan Ins. Corp. v. Strangers' Rest Baptist Church, 156 Kan. 205, 211, 131 P.2d 654.