 | United States. Supreme Court - 1816 - 694 pages
...unexplained by collateral circumstances, which show the quality and extent of the interest claimed, evidences no more than the mere fact of present occupation by right. Id. 105 3. But if the party be in under title, arid by mistake of law supposes himself possessed of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1822 - 664 pages
...unexplained by collateral circumstances, which show thequality and extent of the interest claimed, evidences no more than the mere fact of present occupation by right. But if the party be in under title, and by mistake of law supposes himself possessed of a less estate... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - 1835 - 620 pages
...fee, that gives this effect, by construction of law, to the acts of the party. Possession, per *e, evidences no more than the mere fact of present occupation,...interest, under a lease for years or for life, as in fee* EL FOR WHAT THINGS IT WILL LIE." 1. JACKSOH EX DEM. Loux, v. BUEL, Oct. T. 1812, 9 Johns. N. Y. Rep.... | |
 | William Tidd - 1856 - 976 pages
...Rep. 95. Stewart v. Tuu'n, 4 Cow. 602. But possession alone, unexplained by collateral circumstances, evidences no more than the mere fact of present occupation by right; the law will not presume a wrong; and a mere possession is just as consistent with a present interest... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 792 pages
...alone, unexplained by collateral circumstances, which show quality and extenl of the interest claimed, evidences no more than the mere fact of present occupation by right. But if the party be in under litie. and by mistake of law supposes himself possessed of a less estate... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 594 pages
...gives this effect, by construction [ * 106 ] of law to the acts of the party. Possession, per se, * evidences no more than the mere fact of present occupation,...it must depend upon the collateral circumstances, what is the quality and extent of the interest claimed by the party ; and to that extent, Ricard v.... | |
 | William BROWN (of Gray's Inn, Barrister-at-Law.) - 1869 - 900 pages
...Rep. 221. (p) 9 Rep. 27 li; I/t»ct V. struction of law, to the acts of the party. Possession, per se, evidences no more than the mere fact of present occupation...it must depend upon the collateral circumstances, what is the quality and extent of the interest claimed by the party ; and to that extent, and that... | |
 | Ransom Hebbard Tyler - 1870 - 982 pages
...construction of law, to the acts of the party. Possession, per se, evidences no more than the znere fact of present occupation by right ; for the law...therefore, it must depend upon the collateral circumstances what is the quality and extent of the interest claimed by the party ; and to that extent, and that... | |
 | Ransom Hebbard Tyler - 1876 - 992 pages
...fee, that gives this effect, by construction of law, to the acts of 'the party. Possession,^/1 se, evidences no more than the mere fact of present occupation...therefore, it must depend upon the collateral circumstances what is the quality and extent of the interest claimed by the party ; and to that extent, and that... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1882 - 784 pages
...unexplained by collateral circumstances, which show the quality and extent of the interest claimed, evidences no more than the mere fact of present occupation by right. But if the party be In under title, and by mistake of law supposes himself possessed of a less estate... | |
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Possession per se evidences no more than the mere fact of present occupation by right, for the law will not presume a wrong; and that possession is just as consistent with a present Interest under a lease for years or for life as in fee. 
