Case Name: Den on Demise of Gibson vs. Shearer
Court: Supreme Court of North Carolina
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1806-06
Citations: 1 Mur. 114
Docket Number: 
Parties: Den on Demise of Gibson vs. Shearer
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 5
Pages: 114–115

Head Matter:
Den on Demise of Gibson vs. Shearer
From Salisbury
Deed foe lands in the actual adversed verse possession of person, is
tj'j¡e jessor 0f plaintiff claimed the land in question 1 under the trustees of the University of North Carolina | he obtained a deed for tire land when Shearer the defendant was *n actual possession, claiming the land as his own. The question in the case was, whether this deed was valid ?

Opinion:
Locke&emdash;Judge, delivered the
delivered theopinion of the court, tins t'ulaily'°1<1'deed is void, in as much as the common law does not permit a right of entry to be transferred or sold, and for the reason assigned in Co. Lit. 314, " to avoid main- tenance, suppression of right, and stirring up suits; and therefore nothing in action, entry, or re-entry can be gran- ted over; for so under colour thereof pretended titles might bo granted to great men, whereby i ight might be trodden down and the weak oppressed, which the common law for- biddetb; as men to grant before they be in possession.'* This question has been so often decided- in this state, that the court thought it had long since been at rest and would and would «ever be revived. — Lei judgment be entered for the «-..a