 | United States. Supreme Court - 1816 - 694 էջ
...hereditaments. A grant of land may as well be presumed, as a grant of a fishery, or of common, or of a way. Presumptions of this nature are adopted from the general...public policy of supporting long and uninterrupted possessions. They are founded upon the consideration, that the facts are such as could not, according... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1822 - 666 էջ
...hereditaments. A grant of land may as well be presumed, as a grant of a fishery, or of common, or of a way. Presumptions of this nature are adopted from the general...public policy of supporting long and uninterrupted possessions. They are founded upon the consideration, that the facts are such as could not, according... | |
 | Elijah Paine, United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - 1827 - 748 էջ
...presumption to periods analogous to those of the statute of limitations. But this is not an invariable rule. Presumptions of this nature are adopted from the general...infirmity of human nature; the difficulty of preserving manuscripts of title, and the public policy of supporting long and uninterrupted possessions; and are... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - 1827 - 136 էջ
...hereditaments. A grant of land may as well be presumed as a grant of a. fishery, or of a common, or of a way. Presumptions of this nature are adopted from the general...infirmity of human nature, the difficulty of preserving the muniments of title, and the public policy of supporting long and uninterrupted possession. They... | |
 | Francis Hilliard - 1839 - 672 էջ
...that it is claimed as a right, and not the effect of indulgence, or of any compact short of a grant. Presumptions of this nature are adopted, from the...public policy of supporting long and uninterrupted possessions. They are founded upon the consideration, that the facts are such as could not, according... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 594 էջ
...hereditaments. A grant of land may as well be presumed as a grant of a fishery, or of common, or of a way. Presumptions of this nature are adopted from the general...public policy of supporting long and uninterrupted Ricard v. Williams. 7 W. possessions. They are founded upon the consideration that the facts are such... | |
 | Francis Hilliard - 1869 - 532 էջ
...430. it is claimed as a right, and not the effect of indulgence, or of any compact short of a grant. Presumptions of this nature are adopted from the general...public policy of supporting long and uninterrupted possessions. They are founded upon the consideration that the facts are such as could not, according... | |
 | Ransom Hebbard Tyler - 1870 - 982 էջ
...thereunder. (Thornton v. Edwards, 1 liar. & McHen. E. 158.) Presumptions of grants are founded upon the general infirmity of human nature, the difficulty...public policy of supporting long and uninterrupted possessions. They may be encountered by contrary presumptions; and can never fairly arise where all... | |
 | Emory Washburn - 1873 - 830 էջ
...Allen, 568; Stevens ». Tuft, 11 Gray, 33. And the language of the court, in Ricard v. Williams, is : " Presumptions of this nature are adopted from the general...public policy of supporting long and uninterrupted possessions. They are founded upon the consideration, that the facts are such as could not, according... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1882 - 784 էջ
...hereditaments. A grant of land may as well be presumed, as a grant of a fishery, or of common, or of a way. Presumptions of this nature are adopted from the general...public policy of supporting long and uninterrupted possessions. They arc founded upon the considsideration, that the facts are such as could not, according... | |
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Presumptions of this nature are adopted from the general infirmity of human nature, the difficulty of preserving muniments of title, and the public policy of supporting long and uninterrupted possessions. They are founded upon the consideration, that... 
