A Treatise on the Remedy by Ejectment and the Law of Adverse Enjoyment in the United States: Embracing in Full the Statutory Policy of the Several States, in Respect to the Action for the Recovery of Real Property

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W. Gould & Son, 1870 - Adverse possession - 967 pages

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Page 612 - For the recovery of real property, or of an estate or interest therein, or for the determination, in any form, of such right or interest, and for injuries to real property; "2.
Page 763 - A statement of the facts constituting the cause of action, in ordinary and concise language...
Page 194 - And therefore on a feoffment to A and his heirs, to the use of B and his heirs...
Page 97 - ... when the person claiming such land or rent shall claim in respect of an estate or interest in possession, granted, appointed, or otherwise assured, by any instrument (other than a will,) to him, or some person through whom he claims, by a person being, in respect of the same estate or interest in the possession or receipt of the profits of the land or in the receipt of the rent...
Page 136 - No action for the recovery of real property, or for the recovery of the possession thereof, shall be maintained, unless it appear that the plaintiff, his ancestor, predecessor, or grantor, was seized or possessed of the premises in question within twenty years before the commencement of such action.
Page 92 - ... at the time at which the same shall have become an estate or interest in possession by the determination of any estate or estates, in respect of which such land...
Page 747 - An action may be brought by any person in possession, by himself or his tenant of real property, against any person who claims an estate or interest therein adverse to him. for the purpose of determining such adverse claim, estate or interest.
Page 721 - Actions for the following causes must be tried in the county in which the subject of the action, or some part thereof, is situated...
Page 271 - ... or equity, other than by bringing error for reversal of such judgment, in case the same shall be erroneous, and the said landlord or lessor shall from thenceforth hold the said demised premises discharged from such lease...
Page 141 - ... under claim of title, exclusive of any other right, founding such claim upon a written instrument, as being a conveyance of the premises in question, or upon the decree or judgment of a competent court, and that there has been a continued occupation and possession of the premises included...

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