notoriety

The act of Virginia, which is the land law of Kentucky, requires, that entries shall be so special and certain that any subsequent locater may know how to appropriate the adjacent residuum. The land law of North Carolina, which is the law of Tennessee, contains no such provision... they do not require, and had never been understood in Tennessee to require notoriety, as essential to the validity of an entry.

The state of being notorious Or universally well known.

— Proof by notoriety. In Scotch law, dispensing with positive testimony as to matters of common knowledge or general notoriety, the same as the "judicial notice" of English and American law. See Notice.

evidence, is that which is generally known. - This notoriety is of fact or of law. In general the notoriety of a fact is not sufficient to found a judgment.or to rely on its truth; but there are some facts of which, im consequence of their notoriety, the court will, suo motu, take cognizance; for-example, facts stated in ancient histories, Skin. R. 14; 1 Ventr. R. 149; recitals in statutes, Co. Litt. 19 b; 4 M. & S. 542; and in legal text books, 4 Inst. 240; 2 Russ. 313; and the journals:of the legislatures, are considered of such notoriety that they need not be otherwise proved. The noteriety of the daw is sucl: that the judges are always bound to take notice of it; statutes, precedents and text books are therefore evidence without any other proof than their production. Grisley, Ev. 293. The doctrine of the civil and canon laws is similar to this. Boehmer in tit. 10, de probat. lib. 2, t. 19, n. 2; Mascardus, de probat. conclus. 1106, 1107, et seq.;. Menock. de presumpt. lib. 1, quest. 63, &c.; Toullier, Dr. Civ. Fran. liv. 3, c. 6,.n. 13; Dict. de Jurisp. mot. Notorieté.