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Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports
Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ct. 1, holding provision of Philippine Act of 1902, c. 1369, § 45, applies to possession maintained for sufficient time before and until statute went into effect... more », and Igorrot lias title by prescription to mining lands in Benguet, Philippine Islands; State v. King, 64 W. Va. 609, 63 S. E. 494, upholding provision of Constitution, art. XIII, § 6, forfeiting land for nonentry on tax-books, and act of 1905, adding fourth class of transferees, entitled to take forfeited land, to three classes specified in constitutional provision. Statute of limitation modifying common law as to disseizin of wild lands, changing existing rights and remedies, is not invalid because it fixes period at twenty years and allows statute to become operative in five years. Approved in Cummings v. Rosenberg, 12 Ariz. 329, 100 Pac. 811, holding provision of Civil Code of 1901, par. 2938, barring actions to recover land in peaceable and adverse possession of another after ten years from accrual of cause of action, operates upon rights of action accruing before statute became effective, where statute allows reasonable time for bringing such actions; Adams v. Adams, 211 Mass. 202, 97 N. E. 984, upholding Statutes 1905, c. 326, providing for distribution of estate after fourteen years from date of absence or disappearance from State of beneficiary of trust created by will, where section 10 expressly makes act retroactively applicable to existing trustees; Mulvey v. Boston, 197 Mass. 182, 14 Ann. Oas. 349, 83 N. E. 403, upholding statute of limitations changed from six to two years allowing thirty days within which to bring action already accrued; Jacobus v. Colgate, 217 N. Y. 241, 111 N. E. 839, holding provision of Civil Code of Procedure, § 982a, enacted in 1913, creating new cause of action for injuries to rea...« less