Court Opinion

ID: 6607055
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 20:14:39.157257+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:58:13.578965
License: Public Domain

By the statute of 4 Anne, c. 16, § 21, it is enacted, that “ all collateral warranties, which shall bo made after the first day of Trinity term, of any lands, .tenements or hereditaments, by any ancestor, who has no estate of inheritance in possession in the same, shall be void against his heir.”
In the present ejectment, the point was, whether the plaintiff was *146estopped by a collateral warranty of Ms ancestor, who had no estate of inheritance, in possession, of the premises ?
After argument, and taking time to deliberate, the opinion of The Court was delivered by Shippen, Chief Justice, that there was no trace of the extension of the statute of the 4 Anne, c. 16, to Pennsylvania, by legislative oni authority, or judicial practice; and ^‘consequently, that the collateral -* warranty of the ancestor operated as an estoppel to his heir, the plaintiff.1
Judgment, for the defendant.

 But the collateral warranty only descends upon the eldest son, the heir at common law. Jourdan v. Jourdan, 9 S. & R. 268.