Payne v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““The plaintiff in ejectment must recover on the strength of his own title, either by showing paper title back to the Commonwealth or that he and those under whom he claims have been in continuous, adverse possession of the lands for the statutory period next before the institution of the action.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ogle v. Cole's Executors