 | 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...and not on the weakness of that of the defendant*. Possession gives the defendant a right against every person who cannot shew a good titleh. But a lessee... | |
 | William Ballantine - 1812 - 272 σελίδες
...OT P0SSESSI0N. RIQHTS of entry are tried in ejectment, in which action the plaintiff recovers on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of the defendant;(a) he recovers a possession ; and the right to that possession, since the statute of 21... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1817 - 782 σελίδες
...person, the party who is not clothed with the legal estate cannot prevail in a court of law (4). The plaintiff in ejectment must recover on the strength...own title, and not on the weakness of that of the defendant8. Possession gives the defendant a right against every person who cannot shew a good title... | |
 | South Carolina. Constitutional Court of Appeals - 1823 - 512 σελίδες
...the long established, and universally prevailing, rule of law, that the plaintiff must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of his adversary. I am sensible of the difficulty which will accrue to purchasers, at sheriff's sales,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Henry Blackstone - 1827 - 764 σελίδες
...title stands on these pleadings. Now, though it be a general rule that the PlaintifFmust rest on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of his adversary, yet here the rule seems to be inverted; the Defendant not having traversed the Plaintiff's... | |
 | William Ballantine - 1829 - 652 σελίδες
...OF POSSESSION. RIGHTS of entry are tried in ejectment, in which action the plaintiff recovers on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of the defendant ; (a) he recovers a possession ; and the right to that possession, since the statute of 21 Jac. I.... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1833 - 1020 σελίδες
...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 against... | |
 | 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,... | |
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The plaintiff in ejectment must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of the defendant*. 
