 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812 - 516 페이지
...dwell upon, is the legal certainty of the complainants' entry. Pursuing the principle that a plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of his adversary's, the defendant has not entered into any discussion relative to the sufficiency of his... | |
 | William Ballantine - 1812 - 272 페이지
...OT P0SSESSI0N. RIQHTS of entry are tried in ejectment, in which action the plaintiff recovers on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of the defendant;(a) he recovers a possession ; and the right to that possession, since the statute of... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1812 - 732 페이지
...legal estate cannot prevail in a court of law (-1). The plaintiff in ejectment must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of the defendant*. Possession gives the defendant a right against every person who cannot shew a good... | |
 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1839 - 658 페이지
...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 case. The plaintiff makes... | |
 | South Carolina. Constitutional Court of Appeals - 1823 - 512 페이지
...the long established, and universally prevailing, rule of law, that the plaintiff must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of his adversary. I am sensible of the difficulty which will accrue to purchasers, at sheriff's sales, by this decision... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1825 - 838 페이지
...the crown after an adverse possession of sixty years, does not give a title. (J~) The rule that the plaintiff in ejectment must recover upon the strength of his own title, is qualified in its application to the case of landlord and tenant, for a tenant who has come in under... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Henry Blackstone - 1827 - 764 페이지
...title stands on these pleadings. Now, though it be a general rule that the PlaintifFmust rest on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of his adversary, yet here the rule seems to be inverted; the Defendant not having traversed the Plaintiff's title, but... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1833 - 1020 페이지
...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 possession will suffice against a party who acquired... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - 1836 - 602 페이지
...action of ejectment. In that action it is a well known principle, that the plaintiff must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of his adversary. This principle applies here. The plaintiff must show a clear chain of title, valid and legal in every... | |
 | Sir Edward Coke, John Henry Thomas - 1836 - 772 페이지
...privity of the mortgagee. Ketch v. Hall, Dougl. 21. The plaintiff in ejectment, also, must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of the defendant ; for possession gives the defendant a right against every man who cannot shew a good... | |
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While as a general rule a plaintiff in ejectment must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of his adversary... 
