A Practical Treatise of the Law of Vendors and Purchasers of Estates, Volume 2G. and C. Merriam, 1851 - Vendors and purchasers |
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... rule , but the proposition was abandoned . The commissioners say that it had occurred to them that a person devising or settling an estate in fee simple , might be allowed to direct that the donee or devisee should take the estate as if ...
... rule , but the proposition was abandoned . The commissioners say that it had occurred to them that a person devising or settling an estate in fee simple , might be allowed to direct that the donee or devisee should take the estate as if ...
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... rule . IV . Of the half blood ( 1 ) . 14. Any person related to the person from whom the descent is ( j ) Sec . 7 . ( k ) Sec . 8 . ( 1 ) The half blood was , until lately , as Mr. Chancellor Kent observes , entirely excluded by the ...
... rule . IV . Of the half blood ( 1 ) . 14. Any person related to the person from whom the descent is ( j ) Sec . 7 . ( k ) Sec . 8 . ( 1 ) The half blood was , until lately , as Mr. Chancellor Kent observes , entirely excluded by the ...
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... rule requiring seisin alto- gether , and to enact that estates should pass to the heirs of the person who last died entitled , although he might not have had seisin ( p ) ( 3 ) . But at that time it was not in contemplation to trace the ...
... rule requiring seisin alto- gether , and to enact that estates should pass to the heirs of the person who last died entitled , although he might not have had seisin ( p ) ( 3 ) . But at that time it was not in contemplation to trace the ...
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... rule or canon is , that the male issue shall be admitted before the female . 3. A third rule or canon of descent is this : that where there are two or more males in equal degree , the eldest only shall inherit ; but the females ...
... rule or canon is , that the male issue shall be admitted before the female . 3. A third rule or canon of descent is this : that where there are two or more males in equal degree , the eldest only shall inherit ; but the females ...
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... rule is , that on failure of lineal descendants , or issue of the person last seised , the inheritance shall des- cend to his collateral relations , being of the blood of the first purchaser , subject to the three preceding rules . 6. A ...
... rule is , that on failure of lineal descendants , or issue of the person last seised , the inheritance shall des- cend to his collateral relations , being of the blood of the first purchaser , subject to the three preceding rules . 6. A ...
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Page 36 - And be it further enacted, that every will shall be construed, with reference to the real estate and personal estate comprised in it, to speak and take effect as if it had been executed immediately before the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
Page 454 - ... or over which such person shall at the time of entering up such judgment, or at any time afterwards, have any disposing power which he might without the assent of any other person exercise for his own benefit...
Page 35 - That no obliteration, interlineation, or other alteration made in any will after the execution thereof shall be valid or have any effect, except so far as the words or effect of the will before such alteration shall not be apparent, unless such alteration shall be executed in like manner as herein-before is required for the execution of the will...
Page 34 - ... such devise, legacy, estate, interest, gift, or appointment shall, so far only as concerns such person attesting the execution of such will, or the wife or husband of such person, or any person claiming under such person or wife or husband, be utterly null and void...
Page 455 - Law, nor any order in bankruptcy or lunacy shall by virtue of this act affect any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, as to purchasers, mortgagees, or creditors, unless and until a memorandum or minute, containing the name, and the usual or last known place of abode, and the title, trade, or profession...
Page 35 - And be it further enacted, That every Will made by a Man or Woman shall be revoked by his or her Marriage (except a Will made in exercise of a Power of Appointment, when the Real or Personal Estate thereby appointed would not in default of such Appointment pass to his or her Heir, Customary Heir, Executor, or Administrator, or the Person entitled as his or her next of Kin, under the Statute of Distributions) . XIX.
Page 54 - person" shall extend to a partnership, or body politic, corporate, or collegiate, as well as to an individual ; and every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be applied to several persons or things...
Page 35 - ... by the burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking the same.
Page 54 - ... within twenty years next after the time at which the right to make such entry or distress or to bring such action shall have first accrued to some person through whom he claims...
Page 620 - B, his executors, administrators, and assigns, to and for his and their own proper...