This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1829 |
| Citation: | 1 G. & J. 503 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
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| Short Summary: | Where the testator devised certain tracts of lands to his sons and the slaves and stocks to his daughters for the time they spend unmarried. One daughter alleging entitlement to a tract of land alleging that there is a seisin of the land in eights. The court affirming the lower court's opinion that a defendnt's silence is not an admission to the existence of a seisin; the plaintiff must prove this in fact on thier own. |
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| Full name: | Warfield vs. Gambrill |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |