Hartley v. Brown

Citations

• 46 Cal. 201
• 1873 Cal. LEXIS 158

Syllabus

<p>Confirmees of Mexican Grant. — The legal title to a Mexican or Spanish grant of land vests in the confirmees and their assigns.</p> <p>Legal Title in Ejectment. — If the confirmation of a Mexican grant of land is made to the children of the grantee, they have the legal title, and they and their assigns will prevail in ejectment against one claiming title under a sale made by the administrator of the grantee, when no equitable defense is set up.</p> <p>Legal Title to Mexican Grant. —The title which passes to the confirmee and patentee of a Mexican grant, when such confirmee and patentee is not the grantee, does not inure to the benefit of a purchaser at a sale made by an administrator of the grantee, so as to vest in him the legal title.</p> <p>Legal Title in Ejectment. — In ejectment the legal title must prevail where there is no valid equitable defense set up.</p>