The People v. . Van Rensselaer
New York Court of Appeals
This action, framed under the fifth subdivision of § 143 of the Code of 1848, corresponding with § 167 of the present Code, was brought to recover real property, without damages for the withholding thereof, and is the substitute provided by .the Code for the action of ejectment under the former practice. It was commenced in the year 1848, in pursuance of the concurrent resolution of the legislature of the 6th of April of that year, in relation to “ manorial titles.”
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This action, framed under the fifth subdivision of § 143 of the Code of 1848, corresponding with § 167 of the present Code, was brought to recover real property, without damages for the withholding thereof, and is the substitute provided by .the Code for the action of ejectment under the former practice. It was commenced in the year 1848, in pursuance of the concurrent resolution of the legislature of the 6th of April of that year, in relation to “ manorial titles.” (Laws of 1848, 582.) The complaint alleges that the plaintiffs are the true owners in fee simple, and entitled to the immediate…
1Concurrence
The material facts in this case are very simple. On the fourth day of November, 1685, in the first year of the reign of King James the Second, Dongan, the colonial governor, acting in behalf of the crown, granted in fee to two persons, both named Killian Van Rensselaer, and being, as it seems, cousins and descendants of another Killian Van Rensselaer, their common grandfather, a large tract of land, of which the premises in question are a part, to hold the same in trust for the right heirs and assigns of Killian Van Rensselaer, the grandfather, subject to a quit-rent of fifty bushels of good…
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- Kirk v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1829
- Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts v. Town of PawletSupreme Court of the United States · 1830
- La Frombois v. Jackson ex dem. SmithCourt for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · 1826
- Darling v. Rogers & SagoryCourt for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · 1839
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