Maxwell's Lessee v. Lloyd
Court of Appeals of Maryland
EJECTMENT for a tract of land called Harwoods Lyon, lying in Talbot County, and containing 400 acres. At the trial of the cause, the plaintiff, in order to make out his title to the lands in question, offered to give in evidence to the Jury a copy, under seal of the land-office, of a patent for the lands in question from the Lord Proprietary to one Thomas Harwood, dated the 12th of February, 1663. Whereupon the defendant opposed the said copy’s being given in evidence,…
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EJECTMENT for a tract of land called Harwoods Lyon, lying in Talbot County, and containing 400 acres. At the trial of the cause, the plaintiff, in order to make out his title to the lands in question, offered to give in evidence to the Jury a copy, under seal of the land-office, of a patent for the lands in question from the Lord Proprietary to one Thomas Harwood, dated the 12th of February, 1663. Whereupon the defendant opposed the said copy’s being given in evidence, because the original patent, of which the paper offered was a copy, was surrendered and made void; and to prove it, shewed in…
1Opinion of the Court
In the early settlement of a country the jurisdiction of separate Courts are pftep blended in epch other, Formerly *215fe this State the Chancellor exercised his office, and kept the great seal in the land-office. In England it was kept in •the Exchequer. Could an enrolment in the Exchequer be refused as not being evidence? In the construction of grants the law must be taken as it was at the time of the grant made. Co. Litt. 8. b. The precedents produced from the land-office of similar surrenders having been made, proves what was considered to be the law at the time the surrender was made. The…
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