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Kilty's Land-Holder's Assistant, and Land-Office Guide
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LAND-HOLDER'S ASSISTANT. 431

    The injury which the caveator alledges may be done to him
by the patent, if granted in this case, by preventing his
obtaining a patent on his special warrant, does not require
consideration; the warrant being subsequent in date, and the
caveator having had it in his power to apply for it before.

    For the reasons above stated, the chancellor is of opinion
that the caveat in this case ought not to be ruled good, and it
is accordingly adjudged, ordered, and decreed, that the said
caveat be dismissed, but each party to pay his own costs.

¾¾

        LANCELOT WARFIELD)
                        vs                      )    Caveat in the Land-office.
        JOHN MERRIKIN.          )

    After hearing on the 12th, the arguments of the counsel
on this caveat, and examining the plat, the depositions,
and the other papers referred to, the chancellor has in the
first place considered how far this case is brought within the
rule adopted by the judges of the land office, which has been
that, unless the caveator could support his allegation beyond
a doubt, the matter should be referred to a jury.
¾The
reason given for this rule has been that an admission of the
caveat puts an end to the pretensions of one party, and a
dismission leaves both parties in a condition to have a full and
fair trial:
¾But, this principle does not prevent the ruling a
caveat good, where the certificate returned, and other
circumstances, shew that the defendant's location is not a just
one, so as to shew any vacancy.

    The location made by the defendant, of the tract called
Scotland, is grounded on the finding of the jury, in 1700;
¾
and the caveator is willing also to rely on that finding, but
contends that it should be located without the allowance for
variation, and by regarding the expressions;
¾and it is
admitted that the question shall be considered as if the finding of
the jury was located by the caveator as he contends it should
be.

    It would be extending the rule abovementioned to a
dangerous length to say that every location set up by a person
claiming land as vacancy should create a doubtful question,
proper to be left to a jury,
¾and that the judge of the land
office should not judge of a location made contrary to other
long established rules;
¾and there is no rule more certain
than that a boundary, or other call, is to be gratified, and that
the course and distance, in such case, is to be disregarded.

    The patent for the tract called Scotland mentions three
boundaries, which are marked on the plat A, B, & C; and
the lines on which they are placed correspond with those laid
down by the defendant, from C to B, & to A. The patent



Source: John Kilty. Land Holder's Assistant and Land Office Guide.
Baltimore: G. Dobbin & Murphy, 1808. MSA L 25529.



 
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