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Presumptive title

contrary, will sustain an action for a tresspass by a wrongdoer, and will indeed be strengthened, by lapse of time, into

Possession follows title

of a rightful owner and not in favour of a wrongdoer. The latter can acquire a title only by actual physical

Ouster

carry-ing with it the deprivation of possession; for thereby the wrongdoer gets into the actual occupation of the land or hereditament,

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Omnia pr'sumuntur contra spoliatorem

Omnia pr'sumuntur contra spoliatorem, (All things are presumed against a wrongdoer.) See Armory v. Delamirie, (1722) 1 Str 504; 1 Smith

Marque, law of

to receive ordinary justice to take the goods of the wrongdoer (if they can be found within one's own precinct) in

Entry

disseisin; for as in these the original entry of the wrongdoer was unlawful, they may therefore be remedied by the mere

In odium spoliatoris omnia prasumuntur

spoliatoris omnia prasumuntur [Lat.], all things are presumed against a wrongdoer.

False imprisonment

for the present by habeas corpus, as by subjecting the wrongdoer to an action of trespass, etc., usually called an action

Doctrine of pari delicto

Doctrine of pari delicto, The doctrine of pari delicto is not designed to reward the 'wrongdoer' or to penalize the...

Revenge

object and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer

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