Connell v. Culpepper

1. Color of title is mere semblance of title — anything in' writing connected, with title to land which serves to define the limits of the claim.

(а) A deed reciting that the land thereby conveyed has been set-apart as a homestead to the grantor, and having attached thereto the approval of the ordinary that the sale be made, is admissible in evidence as color of title.

(б) And so is a deed appearing to have been executed by an attorney in fact, though unaccompanied by a power of attorney.

2. “ The fraud meant by the code, in declaring that possession in order to be tiie foundation of…