 | Joseph Chitty - 1809 - 550 σελίδες
...where a party has merely a license to use land, Scc.Cg-) . The general rule governing this action is, that the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title, and cannot of course, in general, found his claim upon the insufficiency of the (f) For what an ejectment... | |
 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1839 - 658 σελίδες
...Bilderback, to 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... | |
 | 1827 - 932 σελίδες
...was doubtful ; and, therefore, that the lessor of the plaintiff could not recover, as he must rely upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of that of the defendant : and the Court would not feel inclined to disturb a possession of seventeen years, unless... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit), Bushrod Washington - 1827 - 672 σελίδες
...the defendant may protect his possession, by a subsisting outstanding title in a third person, and that the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title. 2. That the will of Jacob Mootes, passed only an estate for • life to Charles Mootes; and, therefore,... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1833 - 1020 σελίδες
...respect 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... | |
 | William Cruise - 1835 - 502 σελίδες
...a bar in ejectment. 3 Burr. 1901. Cowp. 46. Doug. 721. 36. It is a rule of law that in an ejectment the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title; and cannot found his claim on the weakness of that of the defendant; for possession has given the defendant... | |
 | Joseph Chitty, Thomas Chitty - 1837 - 860 σελίδες
...merely a license to use land, &c. (.r). The general rule governing this action is, that the lessor of the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title, and of course he cannot in general found his claim upon the insufficiency of the defendant's (y) 457) ;... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - 1840 - 816 σελίδες
...HOLY CONCEPTION, IN THE CITY OF MOBILE, VS. THE HE1R9 OF DON MIGUEL ESLAVA. 1. A plaintiff in equity, must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of that of the defendant. 2. A deed, conveying lots of land in the city of Mobile, during the period the Spanish... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court, Merritt M. Robinson - 1842 - 704 σελίδες
...corporation. The parish judge was correct in considering this as in some degree a petitory action, in which the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not by the weakness of his adversary's. As against the Second Municipality the actron is essentially... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1844 - 800 σελίδες
...unimportant to be considered, unless 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... | |
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... the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of the title of the defendant. 
