Section 23-1-17. Scope of notice; ignorance due to negligence  


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  •    Notice sufficient to excite attention and put a party on inquiry shall be notice of everything to which it is afterwards found that such inquiry might have led. Ignorance of a fact due to negligence shall be equivalent to knowledge in fixing the rights of parties.
Civil Code 1895, § 3933; Civil Code 1910, § 4530; Code 1933, § 37-116.