bill to quiet title / cloud on title
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From 202 U.S. 313 - Robert Devine v. City of Los Angeles · 1906Most cited · 270 citing opinions
a bill will [not] lie to dispel mere verbal assertions of ownership as clouds on title, [nor], invoking equity interposition on the ground of the removal of clouds, [may] decrees ... be sought adjudging statutes unconstitutional and void. If it were true that the statutes and charters referred to in the bill were unconstitutional, as alleged, they were void on their face, and could not constitute a cloud on complainants' titles.