Flint v. Sheldon
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was a writ of entry, for sixty acres of land in Reading, on the seizin of the demandant within thirty years, and a disseizin by the tenant.
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This was a writ of entry, for sixty acres of land in Reading, on the seizin of the demandant within thirty years, and a disseizin by the tenant. The cause was tried on the general issue, before Jackson, J., November term, 1813. The demandant, to maintain the issue on his part, produced the deed of thé said Sheldon, the tenant, duly executed by him on the 12th of December, 1809, acknowledged on the same day, and registered on the 14th of the same month, in the registry of deeds for this county ; whereby, in consideration of five hundred dollars, he conveyed the demanded premises to the…
1Opinion of the CourtJackson, J.
The demandant, to prove his seizin of the demanded premises, produced a deed of the tenant purporting to convey the same to him ; which was proved and admitted to have been duly executed, acknowledged, and registered. This evidence was, prima facie, sufficient to maintain the issue for the demandant. Such a deed, by force of our statute of conveyances, actually passes the whole estate which the grantor had in the premises, without any other act or ceremony whatever; and the grantee becomes ipso facto seized of all that the grantor could lawfully convey.
The tenant attempted to prove, in his…
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