ISBN: 9781154987874

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … mais…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...money. All those principles of equity and of fair dealing, which constitute the basis of judicial proceedings, require that courts should lean against such a construction. Ibid. 4. The act of Pennsylvania of 1779, "for vesting the estates of the late proprietaries of Pennsylvania, in this commonwealth," did not confiscate lands of the proprietaries which were within the lines of manors; nor were the same confiscated by the act of 1781, for establishing a land office. Kirk v. Smith, 9 Wheat. 241; 5 Cond. Rep. 594. 5. The statute of limitations of Pennsylvania, of 1705, is inapplicable to an action of ejectment, brought to enforce the unpaid purchase money for lands of the proprietaries within the manors for which warrants had issued. Nor is the statute of limitations of 1785 a bar to such an action. Ibid. 6. No valid title can be derived from a state to lands beyond its own territorial limits. and within the territorial limits of another state. Vanhorne's Lessee v. Dorrance, 2 Dall. 304, 309. 7. Artificial or natural boundaries called for, control a call for course and distance. Barclay and others v. Howell's Lessee, 6 Peters. 498. 8. An unmolested possession for thirty yeari would authorize the presumption of a grant. Under peculiar circumstances, a grant has been presumed from a possession less than the number of years required to bar the action of ejectment by the statute of limitations. Ibid. General Principles. 9. By the common law, the fee in the soil remains in the original owner where a public road is made upon it, but the use of the road is in the public. The owner parte with this use only; for if the road should be vacated by the public, he resumes the exclusive possession of the ground; and while it is used as a... Richard Peters, Books, History, A Full and Arranged Digest of the Decisions in Common Law, Equity, and Admiralty, of the Courts of the United States; From the O Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781154987874

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … mais…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...money. All those principles of equity and of fair dealing, which constitute the basis of judicial proceedings, require that courts should lean against such a construction. Ibid. 4. The act of Pennsylvania of 1779, for vesting the estates of the late proprietaries of Pennsylvania, in this commonwealth, did not confiscate lands of the proprietaries which were within the lines of manors; nor were the same confiscated by the act of 1781, for establishing a land office. Kirk v. Smith, 9 Wheat. 241; 5 Cond. Rep. 594. 5. The statute of limitations of Pennsylvania, of 1705, is inapplicable to an action of ejectment, brought to enforce the unpaid purchase money for lands of the proprietaries within the manors for which warrants had issued. Nor is the statute of limitations of 1785 a bar to such an action. Ibid. 6. No valid title can be derived from a state to lands beyond its own territorial limits. and within the territorial limits of another state. Vanhorne''s Lessee v. Dorrance, 2 Dall. 304, 309. 7. Artificial or natural boundaries called for, control a call for course and distance. Barclay and others v. Howell''s Lessee, 6 Peters. 498. 8. An unmolested possession for thirty yeari would authorize the presumption of a grant. Under peculiar circumstances, a grant has been presumed from a possession less than the number of years required to bar the action of ejectment by the statute of limitations. Ibid. General Principles. 9. By the common law, the fee in the soil remains in the original owner where a public road is made upon it, but the use of the road is in the public. The owner parte with this use only; for if the road should be vacated by the public, he resumes the exclusive possession of the ground; and while it is used as a... Richard Peters, Books, History, A Full and Arranged Digest of the Decisions in Common Law, Equity, and Admiralty, of the Courts of the United States; From the O Books>History <