 | Samuel March Phillipps - Evidence (Law) - 1815 - 600 pages
...ofthcRujbyCharity v.Merrj- (4) 3 East, jcx>, 2. .5. c. plained, the jury ought to believe it. But it is impossible that length of time can be said to be an...bar like a statute of limitation; it is certainly a jtresiimptiv e bar, which ought to go to the jury." The other Judges also were strongly of the same... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - Evidence (Law) - 1816 - 746 pages
...that, unless contradicted or ex*plained, the jury ought to believe it. But it is impossible • * 122 that length of time can be said to be an absolute...certainly a presumptive bar, which ought to go to the jury." The other Judges also were strongly of the same opinion. In the case of Hole roft v. Heel,... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - Evidence (Law) - 1820 - 838 pages
...by grant or other, that, unless contradicted or ^explained, the jury ought to believe it. But it is impossible that length of time can be said to be an...limitation ; it is certainly a presumptive bar, which ought •5 Eaut, 215. 4 Burr. 1963. Cot- (3) 3 East, 300, 30.'. Da««on r I> 'lu,4Eip NP 0.69. of Norfolk,... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - Evidence (Law) - 1822 - 644 pages
...grant or otherwise, that, unless contradicted or explained, the jury ought to believe it . But it is impossible that length of time can be said to be an...certainly a presumptive bar, which ought to go to the jury." The other Judges also were strongly of the same opinion. In the case of Holeroft v. Heel,... | |
 | William Mawdesley Best - Evidence, Circumstantial - 1845 - 232 pages
...by grantor otherwise, that, unless contradicted or explained, the jury ought to believe it But it is impossible that length of time can be said to be an absolute, bar, like a statute of limitations; it is certainly a presumptive bar, which ought to go to the jury." And Buller, J., there... | |
 | William Mawdesley Best - Cross-examination - 1854 - 930 pages
...grant or otherwise, that, unless contradicted or explained, the jury ought to believe it ; but it is impossible that length of time can be said to be an...certainly a presumptive bar, which ought to go to the jury." And Buller, J., there says, "If the judge in this case meant it " (le) twenty years' uninterrupted... | |
 | Francis Law Latham - Light and air (Easement) - 1867 - 324 pages
...grant or otherwise, that, unless contradicted or explained, the jury ought to believe it ; but it is impossible that length of time can be said to be an...certainly a presumptive bar which ought to go to a jury. Time immemorial itself is only presumptive evidence "(g). So also in a case where the plaintiff's lights... | |
 | Ransom Hebbard Tyler - Boundaries (Estates) - 1876 - 604 pages
...unless contradicted or explained the jury were required to believe it ; but no length of time could be said to be an absolute bar like a statute of limitation, though it was considered a presumptive bar which ought to go to a jury. Time immemorial itself is only... | |
 | Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 968 pages
...grant or otherwise that, unless contradicted or explained, the jury onght to believe it ; but it is impossible that length of time can be said to be an absolute bar, like a statute of limitations ; it is certainly a presumptive bar which ought to go to a jury. Thus, in the case of a... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 834 pages
...explained, the jury ought to believe it; but it is impossible that length of time can bo an absolute b;ir, like a statute of limitation. It is certainly a presumptive bar, which ought to go to a jury." But neither a tenant for years nor a tenant for life, nor any one holding a particular estate, can... | |
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The enjoyment of lights with the defendants' acquiescence for twenty years is such decisive presumption of a right by grant or otherwise that, unless contradicted or explained, the jury ought to believe it; but it is impossible that length of time can... 
