 | William Selwyn - 1812 - 732 str.
...another person, the party who is not clothed with the 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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812 - 516 str.
...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 claim to the land... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1816 - 694 str.
...LINDSCY'S Heirs and Others. Feb. 10th. It is a rule at law, and in equity, that a party must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of his adversary's title. To support an entry, the party claiming. under it must show that the objects called for are so described,... | |
 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1839 - 658 str.
...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 out aprima fade... | |
 | Francis Buller - 1817 - 684 str.
...Strachan, 2 Strn. 117.9, but more correctly reported in 5 TR 110 (n), it was laid down by Lee, C. 3. that the plaintiff in ejectment must recover on the strength of his ou-n title, and not on the weakness of defendant's; and by Lord Mansfield, in Roe, ex dem. Haldane... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Thomas Sergeant, William Rawle - 1820 - 610 str.
...because he has confessed it to be good by accepting a lease, and has thus obtained the possession. That the plaintiff in ejectment must recover on the strength of his own title and pot on the weakness of his adversary's, is undoubtedly true in general. But in a case... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1822 - 666 str.
...It has been long and well established as a rule of law and equity,1 that a party must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of his adversary's title. In order to uphold and support an entry, 'it is incumbent on the party claiming under it, to show that... | |
 | South Carolina. Constitutional Court of Appeals - 1823 - 512 str.
...opinion the motion should be rejected. BREVARD, J. The plaintiff must recover in this action on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of his adversary's. It was contended for the plaintiff. 1st. That on the death of Mrs. Honald in 1786, the estate did not... | |
 | Thomas Peake - 1824 - 838 str.
...tille sufficient to put the tenant on his defence. Smith ex. d. Teller r. .farrilard, 10 Johns. 338. The plaintiff in ejectment must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness ol the defendant. I*s. of Welker v. Coulter, ¿Idilis. Дер. 390. Lane et al. v. Reynard et al. 2... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1825 - 838 str.
...the plaintiff to recover, but in any other sense the position seems to be at variance with the rule, that the plaintiff in ejectment must recover on the strength of his own title. It has also been laid down that twenty years adverse possession, since (a) Gilb. Eject.... | |
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It is settled law that the plaintiff in ejectment must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of his adversary's... 
