 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1790 - 460 pages
...in faying, that, when there is, in the fame conveyance, a limitation to the anceftor, for life, and, mediately or immediately, to his heirs in fee, or in tail, the words, " hit heir," are not words of purcbafe. When there is an intermediate vefied remainder, as in Couijon... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts, Sir John Strange, John Strange - Law reports, digests, etc - 1795 - 836 pages
...41 anceftor by any gift or conveyance takes an eftate of freehold, " and after an eftate is thereby limited mediately or immediately " to his heirs in fee or in tail, that always in fuch cafe bis btlrt " are words of limitation of the eftate,and not words of purchafe... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Uses (Law) - 1806 - 308 pages
...described by the appellation of the rule in Shelley's case, and which was in that case thus defined — ' When the '• ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes...the same gift or conveyance an estate ' is limited either mediately or immediately to his heirs * in fee or in tail ; that always in such cases (the heirs)... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 698 pages
...purchase, I may observe, that the much-talkcd-of rule in Shelly's case, 1 Co. 104. is this, viz. " when the ancestor, by any gift " or conveyance, takes...the same gift or " conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately, " to his heirs in fee or in tail, that always in such cases the helrt... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1813 - 502 pages
...only applies where the first and subsequent limitations are in the same instrument. The words are : " When the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, " takes an estate of freehold, and, in the same gif't or con" veyance, an estate is limited, either mediately or ira" mediately, to his heirs in fee, or in... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sylvester Douglas Baron Glenbervie - Law reports, digests, etc - 1813 - 1010 pages
...only applies where the 6rst and subsequent limitations are in the same instrument. The words are : " When the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, " takes an estate of freehold, and, in the same gift or con" veyance, an estate is limited, either mediately or im" mediately, to his heirs in fee, or in tail,... | |
 | Richard Holmes Coote - Executory interests - 1814 - 226 pages
...ancestor so taking the freehold, and therefore is not contingent or in abeyance. F. 99 And also, wherever the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takes an estate of freehold, and there is afterwards in the same gift or conveyance a limitation to his right heirs, or heirs in tail,... | |
 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1835 - 836 pages
...that when the ancestor by any gift, devise, or conveyance, takes an estate for life, \\ith remainder mediately or immediately to his heirs, in fee, or in tail, the word heirs is a word of limitation, and not of purchase, at;d the estate of inheritance shall vest... | |
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It is a rule in law, when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited either mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail; that always in such cases, 'the heirs'... 
