ERRATA.

Page 14, line 8, for "complied" read "compiled,"

22, lines 26, 27, for "continuance" read "new trial,"

24, line 2, for "notice" read "motion," 57, line 1, for "natural" read "mutual," 82, line 2, for "juror's" read "jury's," 138, line 10, for "sued" read "served," 237, line 10, omit "same,"

237, line 12, for "repealing" read "repealed,"

317, line 23, for "assignor" read "assignee."

CASES

ARGUED AND DETERMINED

IN THE

SUPREME COURT OF TENNESSEE,

FOR THE

WESTERN DIVISION.

JACKSON, APRIL TERM, 1838.

BROWN US. BALDRIDGE.

GRANT. When it begins to exist-date-registration-relation. The date of a grant, not that of its registration, designates its commencement, as a muniment of title. Whenever registered, a grant relates to, and has full and complete existence, for all purposes, from its date, the registration not being intended to give it existence, but to preserve and perpetuate the evidences that it already exists, and being itself as good without as with a date. See Van Pelt vs. Pugh, 1 Dev. & Bat. 210.

SAME. Limitations. Hence, the time of prescription is to be counted from the date, and not from the registration of the grant.

This action of ejectment, for 640 acres of land, was submitted to BARRY, Judge of the 11th, sitting for HARRIS, Judge of the 9th circuit, at October Term, 1837, of Weakley Circuit Court, upon an agreed case, in which it appeared

That military warrant, 5071, dated December 6, 1797, had been issued by North Carolina to Martin Armstrong, requiring him to survey for Daniel Baldridge, a private 640 acres within the limits of the lands reserved by law for the officers and soldiers of the Continental line of the State; that the Board of Commissioners for West Tennessee had given Baldridge a certificate, dated July 10, 1822, that, by virtue of said warrant, he was entitled to enter 640 acres, by location 873, with any of the principal surveyors, south and west of the Congressional Reservation Line: that thereupon entry 725