Case Name: John Greaves's Lessee against John Dempsy et Uxor.
Court: Court of Appeals of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1726-10
Citations: 1 Md. 65
Docket Number: Lib. W. G. No. 2. folio 523
Parties: John Greaves’s Lessee against John Dempsy et Uxor.
Judges: 
Reporter: Maryland reports, being a series of the most important law cases argued and determined in the Provincial Court and Court of Appeals of the then province of Maryland, from the year 1700 [i.e. 1658] down to the [end of 1799]
Volume: 1
Pages: 65–66

Head Matter:
OCTOBER TERM, 1726.
John Greaves’s Lessee against John Dempsy et Uxor.
THIS was an ejectment for a tract of land called Feme, lying in Charles County. At the trial the following special verdict was found, viz.
We of the Jury find that Mathias O’Bryan was seised in fee of the land in dispute, and had issue, Eleanor O’Bryan by one venter, and William O’Bryan by another venter, and died seised of the said land. We find that William his son entered into the said land, was thereof seised and possessed in his demesne as of fee; and being so ^lereo^ seised died without issue, and intestate, by means whereof the said land became escheat to the Lord Proprietary, for default of heirs of the said William. We find the Lord Proprietary by his grant in due form of law, under the great seal of the Province of Maryland in the year 1/25, granted the same to the said John Greaves, the lessor of the plaintiff, in fee-simple.
We find that there was not any inquisition or office found or returned into the Chancery, or any other Court of Maryland,, of the said escheat, or the Lord Proprietary’s title thereto.
We find that Eleanor O’Bryan, sister of the half blood of the said William O’Bryan, in the year 1/03, by deed duly executed, acknowledged and recorded, gave and granted the said land to the defendant Mary, then called Mary Connell, in fee-simple; by virtue whereof the said Mary entered into the possession of the said land, and hath ever since continued in the full and quiet possession thereof until the ejectment brought. We find the lease, entry, and ouster mentioned in the declaration and rule, and if, &c.
The Provincial Court gave judgment upon a special verdict for the plaintiff.
Lib. W. G. No. 2. folio 523.
D. Dulany’s short notes.

Opinion:
We find an escheat and a grant thereon to the plaintiff. A long possession and no office found. Stat. 8 H. VI. cap. 16. 18 H. VI. cap. 6. Vide 14 Ed. III. cap. 8. about escheators. Plow. 216, 217. 2 Blac. Com. 230. Land to esGheat for want of the heirs of the whole blood.