Girard v. Mayor of Philadelphia
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
These were amicable actions of ejectment, instituted to try the title of the defendants, who were the residuary devisees of the late Stephen Girard, to certain real estate, situate in the city and county of Philadelphia, described as follows, in the agreement under which the actions were entered: “ Two houses and lots on Walnut street, between Second and Dock streets, Nos. 63 and 65, and one house and lot on Dock street, No. 61, purchased October 5, 1831, by the late Stephen…
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These were amicable actions of ejectment, instituted to try the title of the defendants, who were the residuary devisees of the late Stephen Girard, to certain real estate, situate in the city and county of Philadelphia, described as follows, in the agreement under which the actions were entered: “ Two houses and lots on Walnut street, between Second and Dock streets, Nos. 63 and 65, and one house and lot on Dock street, No. 61, purchased October 5, 1831, by the late Stephen Girard. “ A lot of land in Passyunk township, containing sixty acres and eighty-seven perches, purchased by the same,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Gibson, C. J.
In the report of the judges on the statutes, nothing is said about the 32 and 34 Hen. 8. which are therefore to be taken as not in force here; but whether they were considered as having never been soror as supplanted by our statute of 1705, cannot be positively known. They were most probably thought to be repealed and supplied, as they were entirely within the rule laid down by Lord Holt in Blankard v. Galdy, 2 Salk. 411, and repeated by the Privy Council, as appears from the relation of the Master of Rolls in 2 P. Wms. 75; that an…
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