Levasser v. Washburn
Supreme Court of Virginia
This .was an ejectment in the Circuit court of Jackson county. The declaration contained one count on the demise of Honoré Girond, another of the president and directors of the literary fund, a third of J. E. Norvell and John De Homerg-ue, a fourth of said Horvell and Eugene Levasser, and a fifil in the name of Eugene Eevasser alone.
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This .was an ejectment in the Circuit court of Jackson county. The declaration contained one count on the demise of Honoré Girond, another of the president and directors of the literary fund, a third of J. E. Norvell and John De Homerg-ue, a fourth of said Horvell and Eugene Levasser, and a fifil in the name of Eugene Eevasser alone. The plaintiff, under the last mentioned count, claimed as derivative purchaser under a sale made by’ order of the Circuit court of Jackson county, under the acts of assembly in relation to delinquent and forfeited lands. A grant had issued to *one Honoré Girond…
1Opinion of the CourtLee, J.
It is a maxim of great antiquity in the English law, that no time runs against the crown, or as it is expressed in the early law writers, “nullum tempus occurrit regi.” Magdalen College Case, 11 Coke 68-74; S. C. 1 Roll. R. 151; Bracton, lib. 2, ch. 5, § 7; Britton, ch. 18, p. 29; 8 Bac. Abr. “Prerogative,” E, p. 95; 7 Comy. Dig. “Prerog.” D, 86, p. 90. And it may be laid down as a safe proposition, that no statute of limitations has been held to apply to suits by the crown, unless there has been an express provision including it. United States v. Hoar, 2 Mason’s R. 311.
The reason sometimes…
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