 The general rules are that the plaintiff in an action of ejectment must recover, if at all, on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of...  Atlantic Reporter - Page 3671902Full view - About this book
 | Anson Bingham - Estates (Law) - 1868 - 720 pages
...title, but because no one but the State had. The familiar rule, that in ejectment the plaintiff must recover, if at all, on the strength of his own title and not on the want or weakness of the defendant's title, sufficiently accounts for all the rights which the common... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 854 pages
...in error, relied, as respected the first point, on the familiar principles that the plaintiff must recover, if at all, on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of the defendant's; and that a recovery must be had secundum allcgala, or not at all : arguing, fvom the... | |
 | Ransom Hebbard Tyler - Adverse possession - 1870 - 982 pages
...good and sufficient title to the • lands in dispute. The party claiming the right to the lands must recover, if at all, on the strength of his own title, and not on the defects in that of his adversary. This is an elementary principle in the action of ejectment, and it... | |
 | Law - 1884 - 500 pages
...are, therefore, overruled. The general rules are that the plaintiff in an action of ejectment must recover, if at all, on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of the defendant's, and that the latter may defend by showing title in himself, or an outstanding title... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (5th Circuit), William Burnham Woods - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 796 pages
...a part of its jurisprudence. The rule of evidence is, that the plaintiff in ejectment must succeed, if at all, on the strength of his own title, and not on the infirmity of the claim of the defendant So, too, the claimant, to support hia action of ejectment,... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 604 pages
...— TITLE TO SUSTAIN. In ejectment or other action for possession of real property, plaintiff must recover, if at all, on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of his adversary. Ib. 5. PBIMA FACIE TITLE. Where, in a suit for possession of land, the title... | |
 | William Wait - Actions and defenses - 1878 - 1000 pages
...Plaintiff must recover upon his title. It is a universal rule that the party claiming a right to lands must recover, if at all, on the strength of his own title, and not on the defects in that of his adversary. Adams on Eject. 30 ; Wallace v. Swinton, 64 N". Y. (19 Sick.) 188... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 670 pages
...trust which had been abandoned, the plaintiff should recover. In such an action, the plaintiff must recover, if at all, on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of the defendant's. Tb. 4. flame. — Subsequent Purchaser from Judgment Plaintiff. — Conveyance. —... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 1106 pages
...rule or maxim so much relied on in the Court below — that a plaintiff in ejectment must succeed, if at all, on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of the title of the defendant in possession, or, in other words, that the plaintiff must prove his title... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1196 pages
...part in it, is incompetent as a witness in the action. 8. In actions of ejectment the plaintiff must recover, if at all, on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of the defendant's title. 9. A testatrix has sufficient testamentary capacity to make a will where, at... | |
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