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..... the case of the sisters was before the court of admiralty as an instance court; an equitable title, conflicting with a legal, and there being no constat of property, the court, according to the notions which prevail in england, could not interfere. 2. .....
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..... 92 claiming title as the heirs of elisha winter, deceased, under an alleged grant from the spanish government, in 1791, which lands, it was stated, were afterwards reclaimed by the baron de carondelet, governor of the province of louisiana, for the use of .....
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..... an interest acquired by possession, divested by the loss of possession from the very nature of a title acquired in war. .....
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..... if it cannot be sustained, there is an end of the plaintiff's title page 14 u. s. .....
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..... if its national character appear doubtful or even neutral and no claim is interposed, the court does not proceed to a final decree, but the cause is postponed with a view to enable any person having title to assert it within a reasonable time before the court. .....
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..... if the neutral be guilty of fraudulent or unneutral conduct, or has interposed himself to assist the enemy in carrying on the war, he is justly deemed to have forfeited his title to freight. .....
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..... the complainants claim under a chain of title regularly deduced from mckee; the defendants, under an act of the legislature, vesting mckee's lands in them as confiscated property. .....
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..... the first opens a land office for the purpose of redeeming the public debt by the sale of lands, and the second prescribes the manner in which officers and soldiers are to obtain titles for lands given to them by the state and amends an act passed at a previous session on the same day. ..... this provision of the constitution is so obviously intended for the completion and authentication of an instrument, attesting a title previously created by law, which instrument is so obviously the mere evidence of prior legal appropriation, and not the act of original appropriation itself, that the court would certainly have thought it unnecessary to advert to it had not ..... 196 error to the circuit court for the district of tennessee syllabus a question relative to the title of the late major general nathaniel greene to twenty-five thousand acres of land given to him, within the bounds of the land reserved for the use of the army, by the tenth section of the act of the ..... section enacts that governor martin and david wilson be entitled, agreeably to the report of the committee, to two thousand acres of land each, adjacent to lands allotted to officers and soldiers for which they may receive titles in the same manner as the officers and soldiers. ..... ;, appointed to lay off the military lands, and prescribes the mode by which they may appropriate and acquire title to lands given to them by the legislature. .....
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..... these presents that the premises before mentioned now are and forever after shall be free of and from all former and other gifts, grants, bargains, sales, dower, right, and titles of dower, judgments, executions, title, troubles, charges, and encumbrances whatsoever done or suffered to be done by the said john craig, and sarah, his wife, and robert johnson and elijah craig, trustees for ..... the improvements, watercourses, profits, and appurtenances whatsoever to the same belonging, or in anywise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, and profits thereof, and all the estate, right, title, property, and demand, of them, the said john craig, and sarah, his wife, and robert johnson and elijah craig, trustees for the said john craig of, in, and to the same, ..... together with the improvements, watercourses, profits, and appurtenances whatsoever belonging or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and remainder, and remainders and profits, thereof; and all the estate, right, title, property, and demand of them, the said john craig, and robert johnson and elijah craig, trustees for the said john craig, of, in, and to the same, to have and ..... the said william in fact saith that the premises before mentioned were not, then and there, free of and from all former gifts, grants, bargains, sales, titles, troubles, charges, and encumbrances whatsoever done and suffered to be done by the said john craig, and sarah his wife, and robert johnson and elijah craig, .....
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..... on a bond conditioned for the conveyance of 5,000 acres of land to be situated within certain bounds of the state of ohio, for which land a conveyance was prayed if the defendant was possessed of or had the means of acquiring the title thereto, and in the event of such inability on the part of the defendant to comply specifically with his stipulation, a compensation in damages in lieu thereof, page 15 u. s. ..... therefore the vendor, being unable to make a title free from encumbrances to the lands sold in kentucky, was held not to be entitled to a decree for a specific performance. ..... but the appellees appear to the court to be incapable of making an unencumbered title to the land sold by their ancestor. ..... this might be corrected by sending the case back with instructions to new model the decree so as to adapt it to the situation of the parties, did it appear to the court that the appellees are able to make such a title as the appellant ought to receive. ..... it might be urged that as the appellant sold to patton, and patton holds also under the sheriff's sale, he is not now at liberty to consider patton's title as an encumbrance on the land. ..... ;, and allege a good title under the sheriff's deed. ..... 302 such a title to the land at this time as the appellant ought to accept deprives them of the right to demand a specific performance. ..... the encumbrance is an encumbrance in fact, and its legality can be inquired into by this court only in a suit to which the persons claiming the title are parties. .....
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