2011 Ark. App. 302 - Gibbs v. Stiles’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “Color of title is not, in law, title at all. It is a void paper, having the semblance of a muniment of title, to which, for certain purposes, the law attributes certain qualities of title. Its chief office or purpose is to define the limits of the claim under■ it. Nevertheless, it must purport to pass title. In form, it must be a deed, a will, or some other paper or instrument by which title usually and ordinarily passes. Such qualities as- are imputed to it by the law, for limited purposes, are purely fictitious and are accorded to it only to work out just results. Fictions are never used in procedure or law for any other purpose.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2016 Ark. App. 265 - Dodson v. Lovelace