 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1842 - 598 pages
...one man knowingly, though he does it passively by looking on, suffers another to purchase and expend money on land, under an erroneous opinion of title, without making known hie claim, he shall not afterwards be permitted to exercise his legal right against such person. It... | |
 | Henry Jacob Labatt - Law reports, digests, etc - 1861 - 486 pages
...173. Where a person knowingly though passively looks on and suffers another to purchase and expend money on land under an erroneous opinion of title,...his claim, he shall not afterwards be permitted to assert his legal right against such person. Ib. 174. Where the defendants, claiming to be preemptioners... | |
 | Emory Washburn - Real property - 1864 - 912 pages
...held, that if one knowingly, though passively, or by looking on, suffers another to purchase and expend money on land under an erroneous opinion of title, without making known his own claim, he shall not exercise his right against such purchaser. The same doctrine is repeated in... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Consideration (Law) - 1866 - 830 pages
...eqnitable doctrine, that if a man knowingly ihougli passively suffers another to purchase and expend money on land under an erroneous opinion of title, without making known his claim, he shall not be permitted afterwards to exercise his legal nVht against such person, qui tacet, consentiré videtur... | |
 | Law - 1885 - 550 pages
...one man knowingly, though he does it passively, by looking on, suffer another to purchase and expend money on land, under an erroneous opinion of title, without making known his own claim, he shall not afterward be permitted to exercise his legal right against such person. It... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 660 pages
...would be necessary in conveyance of the fee simple of the land. MoKeLlipv. Mbfl^enny,4:Wa.tta, 317. " If one knowingly, though passively, suffers another...title, without making known his claim, he shall not afterward be permitted to exercise his legal right toward that person." "There is no principle better... | |
 | Henry Edward Wallace - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 696 pages
...then it becomes an act, as where one looks on and suffers another to purchase and spend money upon land under an erroneous opinion of title, without making known his claim. It is, however, a well-settled principle, "That equity will not, on the mere ground of silence, relieve... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 676 pages
...knowingly, though passively, looks on and suffers another to purchase and expend money on land under nu erroneous opinion of title, without making known his claim, he shall not afterwards be permitted to assert his legal right against such person. 2 POSSESSION AS NOTICE ov EQUITARLE TITLE. —And a purchaser... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 588 pages
...one man, knowingly, though he does it passively, by looking on, suffer another to purchase and expend money on land, under an erroneous opinion of title, without making known his own claim, he shall not afterwards be permitted to exercise his legal rights against such person. It... | |
 | William Wait - Actions and defenses - 1879 - 1002 pages
...man, knowingly, though he does it passively, by looking on, suffers another to purchase and expend money on land, under an erroneous opinion of title, without making known, his claim, he shall not afterward be permitted to exercise his legal right against such person. It would be an act of fraud... | |
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There is no principle better established in this court, nor one founded on more solid considerations of equity and public utility, than that which declares, that if one man, knowingly, though he does it passively, by looking on, suffers another to purchase... 
