Brown v. Porter
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was a writ of entry sur disseisin, in which the demandant, as minister of the first parish in North Yarmouth, in this county, demands one hundred acres of land in Freeport, in the same county, described as lot number thirty-three in range B; and he counts upon his own seisin in fee in right of said parish within thirty years, and upon a disseisin by the tenant.
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This was a writ of entry sur disseisin, in which the demandant, as minister of the first parish in North Yarmouth, in this county, demands one hundred acres of land in Freeport, in the same county, described as lot number thirty-three in range B; and he counts upon his own seisin in fee in right of said parish within thirty years, and upon a disseisin by the tenant. The action was tried October term, 1812, upon the general issue of non disseisivit, before Thatcher, J., by whom the jury were directed, upon the evidence produced at the trial, to find a verdict for the demandant; and to this…
1Opinion of the CourtSewall, J.
In the argument upon the exceptions filed for the tenant in this action, the title of the demandant has been placed upon the ground of a demand of a tract of land appropriated to pious uses; and, whatever uncertainty there might have been in a title of this description, as to the person or corporation entitled, the manner of vesting, and the course of inheritance or succession of the estate, all doubts of this kind were removed by the solicitude of our ancestors upon subjects of this nature. [ *97 ] *In 1754, by a statute, (1) revised and reenacted in most of its provisions since the revolution,…
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