 | United States. Supreme Court - 1844 - 800 σελίδες
...Pollard's was a <new grant,' since it is an undisputed principle, that the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of his adversaries. " We have taken this view of the case referred to, with the most profound respect for... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1858 - 764 σελίδες
...the appellee; for as we have before shown, the plaintiff, in an ejectment suit, must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of his adversary's Toa, 1857.] Sweeden vs. The State. title, and that a defendant need not attempt to show title at ,... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1852 - 664 σελίδες
...the plaintiff. This is also excepted to. It is true, that in ejectment the plaintifl relies upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of his adversary's. But if, as here, the plaintiff shows a good title — if he produces a grant and a chain of title to... | |
 | Henry Jacob Labatt - 1861 - 1182 σελίδες
...Burnett, 15 Cal. 516. 159. The general rule that, in ejectment, the claimant must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of his adversary's, and that his action will be defeated if defendant shows title out of him. and in a third party, has... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - 1861 - 596 σελίδες
...APPELLANT, vs. LAWRENCE. J. FERRELL, APPELLEE. 1. The rule that a plaintiff in ejectment must rely upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of his adversary's title, is not to be understood as requiring that he shall be compelled, in the first instance, to trace... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1848 - 660 σελίδες
...palpable violation of the well settled doctrine that a plaintiff in ejectment can only recover upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of his adversary's, to refuse the defendant the privilege of destroying the plaintiff's claim to recovery, by showing title... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - 1862 - 466 σελίδες
...principle of law, applicable to the present and like cases, that the claimant must prevail upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of his adversary's, unless it should appear that the defendant was a mere naked intruder, or sets up no title in himself.... | |
 | George Frederick Wharton - 1865 - 292 σελίδες
...of the actual possessor shall prevail. TT is a rule of law, that a plaintiff shall recover upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of his adversary's ; possession, as a prinx't fitcic- right in the defendant, being sufficient to call for proof of an... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1866 - 630 σελίδες
...entitled to the land on the other side of the line ; as the plaintiff, in each case, must recover upon the strength of his own title and not upon the weakness of his adversary's. WRIT of entry. At the trial, before Dewey J., the plaintiff offered in evidence a record of a grant... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1867 - 732 σελίδες
...construction and effect of the statute are obvious. He must recover in all cases, if at all, upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of his adversary's. It is not incumbent upon the defendant to show any title. "Where a plaintiff shows no title, and is... | |
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new grant.' since it is an undisputed principle, that the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of his adversaries. 
