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'... Cyclopedia of Law ... - Page 429by Charles Erehart Chadman - 1912Full view - About this book
| John Tracy Atkyns, Great Britain. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1781 - 792 pages
...conveyance takes an eftate of freehold, and in the fame gift or conveyance an cítate is limited' either mediately or immediately to his heirs^ in fee or in tail, that always, in fuch cafes, the heirs are words of limitations of the eftate, açd not words of purchaie, and the words... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1794 - 676 pages
...conveyance, takes an eftate of freehold, and in the " fame gift or conveyance an eftate is limited, either mediately " or immediately, to his heirs in fee or in tail, that always in fuch " cafes tbe heirs are words of limitation, and not words of pur" chafe:" and the remainder is... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1794 - 700 pages
...conveyance, takes an eftate of freehold, and in the " fame gift or conveyance an eftate is limited, either mediately " or immediately, to his heirs in fee or in tail, that always in fuch " cafes the heirs are words of limitation, and not words of pur«' chafe :" and the remainder... | |
| 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 :" To that objection... | |
| Great Britain. Courts - Law - 1795 - 784 pages
...conveyance, takes an eftate of freehold, and in the fame gift or conveyance an eftate is limited either mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, that always in fuch cafes (the heirs) are words of limitation of the eftate, and not words of purchafe." (3) Lord... | |
| William Cruise - Real property - 1804 - 604 pages
...takes " an eftate of freehold, and, in the fame gift or con<( veyance, an eftate is limited either mediately or '* immediately to his heirs, in fee or in tail, that al" ways, in rach cafes, (the hcirs)5 are words of limi" tation 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... | |
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