Larkin v. Mann
New York Court of Chancery
The bill in this cause was’filed previous to the first day of January, 1830, for the partition of lands, in the county of Schoharie. The bill, having been taken as confessed against all the defendants, was set down for a final decree at the present term.
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
By the 22d section of the title of the revised statutes relative to the partition of lands, (2 R. S. 320,) if the default of any of the defendants, whether known or unknown, has been entered, the court is directed to require proof of the complainant’s title and an abstract of the conveyances by which the same is held ; and all proceedings in partition suits which were pending on the first of January last, or commenced afterwards,, must be conducted according the provisions of that title. Although most of those provisions relate particularly to proceedings in the common law…
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