 | William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 566 pages
...aflert his title, fuch actual pofleflion is, pfimn fide, evidence of a legal title in the poffeflbr ; and it may, by length of time, and negligence of him...hath the right, by degrees ripen into a perfect and indcfeafible title. And, at all events, without fuch actual pofieflion no tide can be completely good.... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1794 - 676 pages
...afiert his title, fuch actual pofleflion is, pri ma facie, evidence of a legal title in the pofleflbr; and it. may, by length of time, and negligence of...indefeafible title. And, at all events, without fuch actual pofleflion no title can be completely good. II. THE next flep to a good and perfect title is the right... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1794 - 700 pages
...aflert his title, fuch actual pofleflion is, frima facie, evidence of a legal title in the pofleflbr ; and it may, by length of time, and negligence of him...indefeafible title. And, at all events, without fuch actual pofleflion no title can be completely good. II. THE next ftep to a good and perfect title is the right... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 904 pages
...that we were occupants without title and by permission. But, says Blackstone, possession of lands, " by length of time and negligence of him who hath the right, by degrees ripens into a perfect artd indefeasible title." As upon the land, so upon the sea. A nation, says Vattel,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1816 - 786 pages
...asaert his title, such actual possession is prima facie evidence of a legal title in the possession ; and it may, by length of time and negligence of him...hath the right, by degrees ripen into a perfect and indefeasible title." 2Bl.Com. 190. So Jenkins, in his Centuries of Reports, (42.) states that the first... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1818 - 712 pages
...jprwrto facie ev- • idence of a legal title in the possession ; and it may, by length of time aud negligence of him who hath the right, by degrees ripen into a perfect and indefeasible title.1' 2 Bl. Com. 196. So Jenkins, in his Centuries of Reports, (42.) states that the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1818 - 712 pages
...possession is printa facie evidence of a legal title in the possession ; and it may, by length of time aud negligence of him who hath the right, by degrees ripen into a perfect and indefeasible iitle." 2 Bl. Com. 193. So Jenkins, in his Centuries of Reports, (42.) states that the... | |
 | Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, John Henry Thomas - Land tenure - 1818 - 752 pages
...assert his title, such actual possession is prima facie evidence of the legal title in the possessor; and it may, by length of time, and negligence of him who has the right, by degrees ripen into a perfect and indefeasible title; and at all events, without such... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 626 pages
...assert his title, such actual possession is, prima facie, evidence of a legal title in the possessor ; and it may by length of time, and negligence of him...hath the right, by degrees ripen into a perfect and indefeasible title. And, at all events, without such actual possession no title can be completely good.... | |
 | Sir Edward Coke, John Henry Thomas - Land tenure - 1827 - 884 pages
...assert his title, such actual possession is prima facie evidence of the legal title in the possessor ; and it may, by length of time, and negligence of him who has the right, by degrees ripen into a perfect and indefeasible title ; and at all events, without... | |
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But in the mean time till some act be done by the rightful owner to devest this possession and assert his title, such actual possession is, prima facie, evidence of a legal title in the possessor ; and it may by length of time, and negligence of him who... 
