Attorney-General ex rel. White v. Anderson
Court of Appeals of Maryland
MOTION to dissolve the injunction issued to stop the execution of a judgment, obtained at law by the defendant’s lessee, against the relator at September Term, 1760, for a tract of land called Bedford, except twenty-five acres laid out for Princess Ann.
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MOTION to dissolve the injunction issued to stop the execution of a judgment, obtained at law by the defendant’s lessee, against the relator at September Term, 1760, for a tract of land called Bedford, except twenty-five acres laid out for Princess Ann. The substance of the case is as follows: On the part of the complainant it is alleged, that from the first settlement of the Province, the Lords Proprietaries have granted the rough uncultivated lands on very easy terms on common warrant; but when lands have been cultivated, or have been once granted, and have reverted, the terms have been…
1Opinion of the Court
*221The plot in the ejectment is referred to and made part of the proceedings.
The substance of the argument of Hall and Goldsborough, on the part of the defendant, was: That there does not appear to hare been any fraud committed by the taker up, or that he got the land upon easier terms than it might have been obtained on an escheat warrant j that the probability is, that the interfering in the survey was owing to mistake, which often happens in such old surveys, and that when Beckford was surveyed, there is no reason to apprehend that uncultivated land was held higher merely because it had beexr…
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- Cecil v. RoseCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1861
- Plaenker v. SmithCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1902