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" The rule that a plaintiff in ejectment must recover upon the strength of his own title and not on the weakness of his adversary's... "
Reports of Decisions in the Supreme Court of the United States: With Notes ... - Page 58
by United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volume 4

United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812 - 516 pages
...a new entry in point of fact. Identity, notoriety, natural objects, are all wanting. February 28. [ JOHNSoN, J. delivered the opinion of the court. In...complainants' entry, are, Glover's Station, Green rivert a marked tree on the bank of the river, and a branch emptying itself into the river* The two...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court And ..., Volume 16

New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1839 - 658 pages
...Joseph Wilson, for her dower, as the widow of Ward Wilson the mortgagor. And the argument is, that the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own...title and not on the weakness of his adversary's. But I do not see the application of this rule to the present case. The plaintiff makes out aprima fade...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volume 7

United States. Supreme Court - 1816 - 694 pages
...LINDSCY'S Heirs and Others. Feb. 10th. It is a rule at law, and in equity, that a party must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of his adversary's title. To support an entry, the party claiming. under it must show that the objects called for are...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 20

United States. Supreme Court - 1822 - 666 pages
...It has been long and well established as a rule of law and equity,1 that a party must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of his adversary's title. In order to uphold and support an entry, 'it is incumbent on the party claiming under it, to...
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Reports of Judicial Decisions in the Constitutional Court, of the ..., Volume 1

South Carolina. Constitutional Court of Appeals - 1823 - 512 pages
...opinion the motion should be rejected. BREVARD, J. The plaintiff must recover in this action on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of his adversary's. It was contended for the plaintiff. 1st. That on the death of Mrs. Honald in 1786, the estate did not...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama, Volume 2

Alabama. Supreme Court, George Noble Stewart - 1832 - 558 pages
...estate to the plaintiff in his own right, and ii cannot support his action; he must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of his adversary's, * and his title must be a legal title, and not only a legal title, but he must establish a right in...
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The Practice of the Law in All Its Departments: With a View of ..., Volume 1

Joseph Chitty - 1833 - 1020 pages
...to the Title, it should HTY. seem that the modern practice narrows the maxim, that the lessor of the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of his adversary, for (at least prima facie) mere proof of priority of possession will suffice...
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A Practical Abridgment of American Common Law Cases Argued and ..., Volume 5

Jacob D. Wheeler - 1835 - 620 pages
...another's title, he shall not be permitted to do it. That the plaintiff, in ejectment, must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of his adversaries, is undoubtedly true in general. But in a case like the present, he would recover, not...
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An Exposition of the Practice Relative to the Right to Begin and Right to ...

William Mawdesley Best - 1837 - 140 pages
...which belonged to his ancestor. In ejectment it is a general principle that a party must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of his adversary's, and consequently when an ejectment is brought by a person as heir at law, he must establish, first,...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of ..., Volume 1

Louisiana. Supreme Court, Merritt M. Robinson - 1842 - 704 pages
...partakes much of the character of a petitory action. In such an action, the plaintiff must succeed upon the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of his adversary's. " If the First Municipality cannot, as I conceive, be considered as standing in the shoes of the original...
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