Superior Court of North Carolina October 5, 1791 (Strudwick v. . Shaw)

1. It does not appear that there has been any actual possession in the lessor of the plaintiff, or the persons under whom he claims, since 1728; therefore, if the plaintiff ever had a right to recover in an action of ejectment, that right has been lost by his laches. (6) The nature of the title to lands is such as to make it divisible into three distinct species of property or kinds of right.