Tilford v. Fleming
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia: No. 234, to January Term 1870. This was a proceeding commenced the 25th of June 1869 by John Fleming against S. Tilford, before Alderman George Moore, to recover possession of premises in Sansom street, occupied by the defendant.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia: No. 234, to January Term 1870. This was a proceeding commenced the 25th of June 1869 by John Fleming against S. Tilford, before Alderman George Moore, to recover possession of premises in Sansom street, occupied by the defendant. The record of the alderman set out that Fleming had complained on oath that the Franklin Fire Insurance Company was the owner of certain premises situate on the north-east corner of Cope and Sansom street, in the city of Philadelphia, and was in quiet, peaceable possession thereof on the 24th day of June 1868, on…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by Agnew, J.
— The ceremony of attornment having its origin in the feudal system of the middle ages, which esteemed it unreasonable to subject a feudatory to a new superior without his consent, is no longer necessary even in England, and is wholly unsuited to our condition. The statute of 4 Anne, c. 16, § 9, making all grants and conveyances of the remainder or reversion good and effectual without the attornment of the tenant, is in *302force in this state: Roberts’s Dig. 45. Attornment being unnecessary, it is not required to enable the alienee to be…
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