 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Thomas Sergeant, William Rawle - 1820 - 610 str.
...be residing on land at the time of application for a warrant. Lane v. Reynard. 65 6. In ejectment a plaintiff must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of the defendant's. But a defendant cannot avail himself of this rule against a pl.iintiff "whom he has fraudulently induced... | |
 | John Adams - 1821 - 474 str.
...up a title in a third person against the purchaser. Jackson v. Bush, 10 Johns. 223. The rule that a plaintiff must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of the defendant's, does not apply against a plaintiff who was fraudulently induced by the defendant to purchase a weak... | |
 | South Carolina. Constitutional Court of Appeals - 1823 - 512 str.
...chain of title. It would be reversing 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... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1825 - 838 str.
...Plaintiff must recover on the strength of his own title. The claimant in ejectment must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of the defendants, for the possession of the latter gives him a right against every one •who cannot establish... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1831 - 788 str.
...entry, and ouster, as part of his case. Doe v. Lamble, 1 if. and if. 237. Proof of a efficient title.'] The plaintiff must recover on the strength of his...title, and not on the weakness of the defendant's. Martin v. Struck/in, 5 TR 107 (n). Twenty years adverse possession, since the statute of limitations,... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - 1836 - 602 str.
...This action is in the nature of an 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,... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Frederick Watts, Henry Jonathan Sergeant - 1842 - 614 str.
...the defendant himself, or some other person. It is true, a plaintiff in ejectment must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of the defendant's. It is all important that neither of us should be carried away by the appeals of counsel, or sympathy... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1856 - 792 str.
...jurisdiction ; and made these additional points : 1. That it is the settled rule in equity, as at law, that the plaintiff must recover on the strength of...title, and not on the weakness of the defendant's title. — Antonez v. Eslava, 9 Port. 537; Pickens v. Harper, 1 Sm. & Mar. Ch. 539. 2. That the defendants... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1852 - 664 str.
...one. If there was no such person, his title is without foundation ; still, as has been already stated, the plaintiff must recover on the strength of his own title and not on the weakness of his adversary's. The person in possession has the right to hold against the whole world, except against... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - 1854 - 784 str.
...553. It is a general rule in all these actions, as we have already remarked in respect to Ejectments, that the plaintiff must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of his adversary's ; and that he must show, that he has the legal interest, and a possessory title, not... | |
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A mere intruder cannot enter on a person actually seised, and eject him, and then question bis title, or set up an outstanding title in another. The maxim that the plaintiff... 
