 | Henry Roscoe - Actions and defenses - 1825 - 838 pages
...bars the suit of 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... | |
 | 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 years, unless... | |
 | 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 Spanish... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1844 - 800 pages
...considered, unless Pollard's was a <new grant,' since it is an undisputed principle, that the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of his adversaries. " We have taken this view of the case referred to, with the most profound respect... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 738 pages
...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. Thatcher, 14 id., 141... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 764 pages
...involving the title of the appellee; for as we have before shown, the plaintiff, in an ejectment suit, must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of his adversary's Toa, 1857.] Sweeden vs. The State. title, and that a defendant need not attempt to... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1848 - 918 pages
...title as would enable him to sustain the action ; for the familiar rule requires, that the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of that of his adversary. Did the plaintiff show such title as would authorize a recovery ? All the conveyances which were offered... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 776 pages
...any title to plaintiff. As in ejectment, or in the corresponding statutory real action, the plaintiff must recover -upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of defendant's, when no relation exists creating an estoppel of defendant's denial of plaintiff's title,... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1882 - 874 pages
...possession of it from the defendant? In our judgment he did not, inasmuch as the plaintiff was bound to recover upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of the defendant's title. 2. It was insisted, however, in view of the facts of this case as disclosed... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1852 - 664 pages
...else than the plaintiff. This is also excepted to. It is true, that in ejectment the plaintifl relies upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of his adversary's. But if, as here, the plaintiff shows a good title — if he produces a grant and a... | |
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A plaintiff in ejectment must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of his adversary's... 
