Messis Sementem Sequitur
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Stimson (1881)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The harvest follows the sowing. Ersk. Inst. 174. 26; Bell, Diet.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
The crop follows the sower.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
The crop belongs to [follows] the sower. A maxim in Scotch law. Where a person is in possession of land which he has reason to bslieve is his own, and sows that land, he will have a right to the crops, although before it is cut down it should be discovered that another has a preferable title to the land. Bell.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
I. The crop follows [belongs to] the sower.