 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 970 pages
...followed by the trial court is thus laid down by Chancellor Kent (4 Commentaries, 535): "If an estate be given to a person generally or indefinitely, with a power of disposition, it carries a fee unless the testator gives the first taker an estate for life only and annexes to it a power of disposition.... | |
 | Edward Burtenshaw Sugden - Powers (Law) - 1823 - 752 pages
...inontrovertibl* rule, that where an estat« is given toi person generally, or indefinitely , with i power of disposition, it carries a fee ; and the only exception to the rule is, where the test an- gives the first taker an estate for life only, by certain and express words, and annexes to... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1851 - 694 pages
...Chancellor KENT in delivering the opinion of the Court of Errors, takes occasion to remark that when an estate is given to a person generally or indefinitely,...carries a fee, and the only exception to the rule is when the testator gives the first taker an estate for life only by certain or express words and annexes... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Common law - 1835 - 632 pages
...son Lawrence the ** die**iUl * fide, 4 Kcnts Com. 535, where it it laid down, that if an estate bo given to a person generally or indefinitely, with a power of disposition it carries a fee, nnleii the testator gives to the first taker an estate fur life only, and annexes to it a pov. er of... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Common law - 1836 - 624 pages
...the devisee. 6. JACKSON v. ROBBINS, 16 Johns. NY Rep. 5S8. It was laid down as an incontroreitalile rule, that where an estate is given to a person, generally...exception to the rule is, whe.re the testator gives to the taker an estate for life ' only, by certain and express words, and annexes to it a power of disposal.... | |
 | N. Saxton, New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1836 - 766 pages
...Johns. Rep. 588, Chancellor Kent, in the court of errors of New- York, says, we may lay it down as aw incontrovertible rule, that where an estate is given...person generally or indefinitely, with a power of dtsposition, it carries a fee ; and cites the additional authorities of Reid v. Shergold, I'd F«.... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1880 - 850 pages
...absolutely necessary to uphold some manifest general intent." 4 Kent's Com., 319. " So, if an estate be given to a person generally, or indefinitely, with a power of disposition, it carries a fee ; unless the testator gives to the first taker an estate for life only, and annexes to it a power of... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1848 - 798 pages
...express either the quantity of interest, or describe the subject of property, as the sense in which generally, *or indefinitely, with a power of disposition, it carries a fee ; unless the testator gives to the first taker an estate for life only, and annexes to it a power of... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1851 - 696 pages
...takes occasion to remark that when an estate is given to a person generally or indefinitely, with & power of disposition, it carries a fee, and the only exception to the rule is when the testator gives the first taker an estate for life only by certain or express words and annexes... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 854 pages
...case by quoting the following language of Chancellor Kent, in Jackson v. Robins, 16 Johns. (NY) 588: " "We may lay It down as an incontrovertible rule that...indefinitely, with a power of disposition, it carries a fee. The only exception to the rule is where the testator gives to the first taker an estate for life only,... | |
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The only exception to the rule is where the testator gives to the first taker an estate for life only, by certain and express words, and annexes to It a power of disposal. 
