Supreme Judicial Court of Maine July 1, 1850 (Crocker v. Pierce)

Tenney, J.

It is a well settled principle, that if one having no title to lands, make a deed of the same with covenants of warranty, and he afterwards acquires a title, it will enure to the benefit of his grantee ; or the one, to whom the latter may have conveyed, with like covenants, although the first grantee may have conveyed to a stranger, after the conveyance to his grantor by the original