 | North Carolina. Supreme Court, Thomas Pollock Devereux, George Edmund Badger - 1834 - 598 pages
...(3 Hawks 119,) Judge JC*E 1832. HENDERSON defines colour of title to be " a writing upon v-'"v^s-/ its face professing to pass title, but which does not do it, tt)°DI cither from the want of title in the person making it, or WBBB. the defective mode of conveyance... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1883 - 846 pages
...whom they claim ? v 67—36 White et at. vs. Rowland and vice versa. Color of title is defined to be " a writing upon its face professing to pass title, but which does not do it either from want of title in the person making it, or from the defective conveyance " that is used. 9 Ga., 443.... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1851 - 716 pages
...whole. [2.] What is meant by color of title ? It may be denned to Beverly and McBridevt. BurUe. be a writing, upon its face professing to pass title,...it would be apparent to one not skilled in the law. The very fact of setting up a statutory title, excludes the idea of a rightful or legal title. The... | |
 | Stephen Franks Miller - 1858 - 488 pages
...under him. Rayner and wife vs. Copehart, 2 Hawks, 375, (1823.) Color of title may be defined to be a writing, upon its face professing to pass title, but which does not do it, either from want of title in the person making it or the defective mode of conveyance which is used; and it would... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - 1870 - 962 pages
...Rogers v. Mitiee, 4 Dev. 180 : but, on its professing to pass a title, which it fails to do, either from want of title in the person making it, " or from the defective mode of conveyance employed : but it must not be so obviously defective that no man of 'ordinary capacity... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1883 - 842 pages
...they claim ? v 67—36 White tt al. vs. Rowland «nd vict vtrta. Color of title is defined to be " a writing upon its face professing to pass title, but which does not do it either from want of title Jn the person making it, or from the defective conveyance " that is used. 9 Gtz., 443.... | |
 | 1915 - 1230 pages
...§§ 505-508; Dec. Dig. Ф=> 89.] 3. ADVERSE POSSESSION ф=71— "COLOR OF TITLE." "Color of title" is a writing upon its face professing to pass title, but which does not do so, either from a want of title in the person making it, or from the defective conveyance that is used,... | |
 | Arthur George Sedgwick, Frederick Scott Wait - 1886 - 956 pages
...man's possession can be ascertained."8 By the Supreme Court of Georgia color of title is defined to be a " writing, upon its face, professing to pass title,...would be apparent to one not skilled in the law." 4 And subsequently by the same court color of title is loosely defined to be anything in writing, connected... | |
 | 1886 - 856 pages
...color of title used anterior to the acts before mentioned; color of title may then be defined to be a writing, upon its face professing to pass title, but which does not do it, either from want of a title iu the person making it, or the defective mode of conveyance that is used; and it would... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1886 - 1100 pages
...title. Osterman v. Baldwin, C Wall., 116. "What fa meant by color of title t It may be denned to be a writing, upon its face professing to pass title, but which does not do it, either from want of title in the person making it, or from the defective conveyance that is used — a title that... | |
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color of title" is defined as follows: "What is meant by color of title? It may be defined to be a writing, upon its face professing to pass title, but which does not do it, either from a want of title in the person making it, or from the defective conveyance... 
