 | Joseph Chitty - Parties to actions - 1809 - 550 pages
...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1839 - 658 pages
...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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1827 - 932 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Civil procedure - 1833 - 1020 pages
...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 - Real property - 1835 - 502 pages
...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 - Forms (Law) - 1837 - 860 pages
...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1840 - 816 pages
...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... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court, Merritt M. Robinson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1842 - 704 pages
...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... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 738 pages
...al, 16 Ark., 414. But in actions of ejectment and in actions for the recovery of personal property, the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of that of his adversary, when the title is put in issue. Patterson v. Fowler, 22 Ark., 396 ; J)ixon v.... | |
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... the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of that of the defendant... 
