 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Common law - 1835 - 618 pages
...action for the I" NC» recovery of any lands, &c., or the possession thereof, shall be maintained, unless the plaintiff, his ancestor, predecessor or grantor, was seized or possessed within twenty years after the right descended or accrued. The eighth section makes twenty years adverse... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1859 - 738 pages
...tenements, or for the recovery of the possession thereof, shall be maintained, unless it appear that the plaintiff, his ancestor, predecessor, or grantor,...seized or possessed of the premises in question within ten years before the commencement of such suit. It would be difficult to conceive in what other manner... | |
 | New York (State), Member of the New-York Bar - Civil procedure - 1851 - 410 pages
...action is prosecuted or the defence is made, or the ancestor, predecessor or grantor of such person, was seized or possessed of the premises in question, within twenty years before the committing of the act in respect to which such action is prosecuted or defence made. § 80. Action... | |
 | Delos White Beadle - Commercial law - 1852 - 366 pages
...property, or for the recovery of the possession fnereof. shall be maintained, \mless it appear that the plaintiff, his ancestor, predecessor, or grantor,...or possessed of the premises in -question, within live years before the~commeiice7nent of such action. No cause of action, or defence to an action founded... | |
 | California, Selucius Garfielde, Frederick A. Snyder - Law - 1853 - 1108 pages
...repro^rtyTniess covery of the possession thereof, shall be maintained, unless it appear iritunfive°year8. that the plaintiff, his ancestor, predecessor, or grantor,...seized or possessed of the premises in question, within five years before the commencement of such action. NO cause of M- SEC. 7. No cause of action, or defence... | |
 | New York (State) - Civil procedure - 1855 - 802 pages
...action is prosecuted or the defence is made, or the ancestor, predecessor, or grantor of such person, was seized or possessed of the premises in question, within twenty years before the committing of the act in respect to which such action is prosecuted or defence made. § 80. Action... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1856 - 886 pages
...property, or for the recovery of the possession thereof, shall be maintained, unless it appear that the plaintiff, his ancestor, predecessor, or grantor,...seized or possessed of the premises in question within ten years before the commencement of such action. SEC. 2. No entry upon real estate shall be deemed... | |
 | District of Columbia - Law - 1857 - 788 pages
...the possession thereof ; and no action shall be maintained for such recovery, unless it appear that the plaintiff, his ancestor, predecessor, or grantor,...seized or possessed of the premises in question within teu years before the commencement of the action ; 2. An action upon a judgment or decree of any court... | |
 | William H. R. Wood - Law - 1857 - 834 pages
...property, or for the recovery of the possession thereof, shall be maintained, unless it appear that horized by statute, may sue without joining with him...person or persons for whose benefit the action is prose five years before the commencement of such action ; provided, however, that an action may be maintained... | |
 | James De Fremery - Mortgages - 1860 - 118 pages
...property, or for the recovery of the possession thereof, shall be maintained, unless it appear that the plaintiff, his ancestor, predecessor or grantor,...seized or possessed of the premises in question, within five years before the commencement of such action; provided, however, that an action may be maintained... | |
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... the plaintiff, his ancestor, predecessor, or grantor, was seized or possessed of the premises in-question, within twenty years before the commencement of the action. § 366. A defence or counterclaim, founded upon the title to real property, or to... 
