Harvard Law Review, Volume 32Harvard Law Review Pub. Association, 1919 |
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Page 135
... owner for sleeping upon his rights ; the great purpose is automatically to quiet all titles which are openly and consistently asserted , to provide proof of meritorious titles , and correct errors in conveyancing.1 1 Quoted in Altham's ...
... owner for sleeping upon his rights ; the great purpose is automatically to quiet all titles which are openly and consistently asserted , to provide proof of meritorious titles , and correct errors in conveyancing.1 1 Quoted in Altham's ...
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... owner suffers , for the repose of meritorious titles generally . As Sir Frederick Pollock puts it , " It is better to favor some unjust than to vex many just occupiers . " It is one thing to have the rightful ownership and just title to ...
... owner suffers , for the repose of meritorious titles generally . As Sir Frederick Pollock puts it , " It is better to favor some unjust than to vex many just occupiers . " It is one thing to have the rightful ownership and just title to ...
Page 139
... owner is deemed to be seised or possessed unless there is another in adverse possession , actual or constructive , clauses one ( 1 ) and two ( 2 ) apparently come to exactly the same thing . The owner's mere absence from the land does ...
... owner is deemed to be seised or possessed unless there is another in adverse possession , actual or constructive , clauses one ( 1 ) and two ( 2 ) apparently come to exactly the same thing . The owner's mere absence from the land does ...
Page 140
... owner in any other manner , either by self - help , by action of trespass , or by a bill in equity . The earlier statutes of limitation did not mention bills in equity as subject to the bar ; but never- theless they were followed in ...
... owner in any other manner , either by self - help , by action of trespass , or by a bill in equity . The earlier statutes of limitation did not mention bills in equity as subject to the bar ; but never- theless they were followed in ...
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... owner , is per se a title good as shield or sword , either to hold or to recover possession , as against all others . Even the title of the original owner is affected ab initio , by disseisin , although not so much to - day as formerly ...
... owner , is per se a title good as shield or sword , either to hold or to recover possession , as against all others . Even the title of the original owner is affected ab initio , by disseisin , although not so much to - day as formerly ...
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Page 737 - Every holder is deemed prima facie to be a holder in due course; but when it is shown that the title of any person who has negotiated the instrument was defective, the burden is on the holder to prove that he or some person under whom he claims acquired the title as a holder in due course.
Page 738 - That no lands acquired under the provisions of this act shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.
Page 730 - On each claim located after the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than one hundred dollars' worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year.
Page 59 - This power, like all others vested in congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the constitution.
Page 470 - A sovereign is exempt from suit, not because of any formal conception or obsolete theory, but on the logical and practical ground that there can be no legal right as against the authority that makes the law on which the right depends.
Page 769 - That at the time it was negotiated to him he had no notice of any infirmity in the instrument or defect in the title of the person negotiating it.
Page 943 - Every citizen may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.
Page 130 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the night.
Page 59 - If, as has always been understood, the sovereignty of congress, though limited to specified objects, is plenary as to those objects, the power over commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, is vested in congress as absolutely as it would be in a single government, having in its constitution the same restrictions on the exercise of the power as are found in the constitution of the United States.
Page 527 - What the company is entitled to demand, in order that it may have just compensation, is a fair return upon the reasonable value of the property at the time it is being used for the public.