 | William Selwyn - 1812 - 732 σελίδες
...person, the party who is not clothed with the legal estate cannot prevail in a court of law (-1). The plaintiff in ejectment must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of the defendant*. Possession gives the defendant a right against every person who cannot shew... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Thomas Sergeant, William Rawle - 1820 - 610 σελίδες
...time of application for a warrant. Lane v. Reynard. 65 6. In ejectment a plaintiff must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of the defendant's. But a defendant cannot avail himself of this rule against a pl.iintiff "whom he has fraudulently induced... | |
 | John Adams - 1821 - 474 σελίδες
...against the purchaser. Jackson v. Bush, 10 Johns. 223. The rule that a plaintiff must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of the defendant's, does not apply against a plaintiff who was fraudulently induced by the defendant to purchase a weak... | |
 | Thomas Peake - 1824 - 838 σελίδες
...sufficient to put the tenant on his defence. Smith ex. d. Teller r. .farrilard, 10 Johns. 338. The plaintiff in ejectment must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness ol the defendant. I*s. of Welker v. Coulter, ¿Idilis. Дер. 390. Lane et al. v. Reynard et al. 2... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1825 - 838 σελίδες
...prendre as pannage, (e) Title. Plaintiff must recover on the strength of his own title. The claimant in ejectment must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of the defendants, for the possession of the latter gives him a right against every one •who cannot establish... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1831 - 788 σελίδες
...case. Doe v. Lamble, 1 if. and if. 237. Proof of a efficient title.'] The plaintiff must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of the defendant's. Martin v. Struck/in, 5 TR 107 (n). Twenty years adverse possession, since the statute of limitations,... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - 1835 - 620 σελίδες
...and good faith, forbid a man to dispute 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,... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Frederick Watts, Henry Jonathan Sergeant - 1842 - 614 σελίδες
...that a better title is outstanding, either in the defendant himself, or some other person. It is true, a plaintiff in ejectment must recover on the strength...evidence in the case, and upon it render a verdict. The plaintiff, I have before stated, has shown a legal title to the property ; what has the defendant shown... | |
 | Archibald John Stephens - 1842 - 1072 σελίδες
...estate in the tenements sought to be recovered, an equitable title not being deemed sufficient The plaintiff in ejectment must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of the defendant. (6) Possession gives the defendant a right against every man who cannot shew... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1858 - 764 σελίδες
...title to the disputed lands, for it is an universally acknowledged and recognized principle, that the plaintiff in ejectment must recover on the strength of his own title and not on the weakness of his adversary's. See Adams on Eject. by Tillinghast, p. 33, and Note 1, and authorities cited; Eason... | |
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But a mere intruder cannot enter on a person actually seized and eject him, and then question his title or set up an outstanding title in another. The maxim that the plaintiff must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of the... 
