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is founded on the anxiety of our law to secure quietude of title. It gives every reasonable facility for the assertion of just rights against wrongful possessors of property; but with equal reasonableness fixes a limit to immunity from the consequences of negligent acquiescence under usurpation, considering it, in a word, better policy to protect a person in possession, than to encourage a struggle for it among strangers. _Vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subveniunt_, is the maxim of the common law, on which also the statute law has often acted, and recently with great effect, by stat. 3 and 4 Will. 4, c. 27, (passed on the 24th July 1833.) By its provisions, many of the most subtle and difficult questions concerning the nature of
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are got rid of; and the period of twenty years from the commencement of the rights of possession, fixed as that within which alone an action or suit in equity for the recovery of lands must be brought--unless a party was, when his right accrued, laboring under the _disability_ of infancy, coverture, insanity, or absence beyond seas: in any of which cases an extension of _ten_ years is allowed: but it is expressly provided, that however numerous such disabilities may have been--however long and uninterruptedly they may have lasted--_forty_ years shall be absolutely the limit within which the action or suit must be brought from the time of the _right first accruing_. If the statute
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as the lawyers say,
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The above constitute some of the boldest and best of the great alterations recently effected in our English system of real property law. A far longer period than the present one was requisite to constitute
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signifies in this place, (1 Corinth. x. 13,) says a commentator on this memorable passage of Scripture,