Ellis v. Eastman

Citations

• 32 Cal. 447

Syllabus

<p>Private Act.—An Act of the Legislature confirming sales of land before then made by a Board of Fund Commissioners, which sales conveyed no title for want of power in the Board, is a private statute of which the Courts will not take notice as evidence of title unless offered in evidence.</p> <p>Private Act must be Offered in Evidence.—Courts will not take judicial notice of a private Act unless offered in evidence.</p> <p>Commissioners of Sinking Fund in San Francisco.—The sales of land made by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund of San Francisco on the 25th day of January, 1851, were void for want of power in the Commissioners.</p>