 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'...  The Law Students' Journal - Página 116editado por - 1883Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Maryland. Court of Appeals, Thomas Harris, Reverdy Johnson - 1825 - 614 páginas
...in Shelley''* case, "that where the ancestor takes an estate of freehold by any gift or (jonveyance, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited...or in tail, the word heirs is a word of limitation of the estate, and hot a word of purchase," which as a known and established rule of law controls and... | |
 | Charles Barton - 1822 - 690 páginas
...danis, takes by descent. Thus, -by the rule in Shelley's case, so often mentioned, when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takes an estate of freehold,...or in tail, the word heirs, is a word of limitation of the estate, and not a word of purchase (1). But it must be noted, that in order to the application... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore - 1823 - 726 páginas
...will, is equivalent to " heirs." The rule is laid down in Shelley's case (6), that " when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takes an estate of freehold,...mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee, or in tail ; that always in such cases ' the heirs ' are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase."... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - 1823 - 856 páginas
...an estate for life, and in the same conveyance, an estate is limited either immediately or mediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, the word heirs is a word of limitation of the estate, and not of purchase. Where the subsequent limitation to the heirs follows immediately... | |
 | William Hayes - 1824 - 436 páginas
...words would be void ; the defendant's counsel answered, that it is a RULE OF LAW when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold...or immediately, to his heirs, in fee, or in tail; that always, in such cases, the heirs are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase.... | |
 | William Hayes - 1824 - 542 páginas
...subsequent wqrds would be void; the defendant's counsel answered, that it is a RULE OF LAW when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold...conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immedialeli/,1.0 hisheirs, in fee, or in tail; thata\wa.js, in such cases^ the heirs are words of limitation... | |
 | William Cruise - 1824 - 528 páginas
...remedy this, it appears to have been very early established, as a rule of law, that " when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takes an estate of freehold,...same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either immediately or mediately, to his heirs, in fee or in tail ; that always in such cases, the heirs are... | |
 | 1828 - 746 páginas
...takes an estate of freehold, sod in the same gift or con. • Reported I Vdlleet.Jut¿283. vayence, an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, in all such cases the heirs are words of li'nitaLion of the estate, and not words of purchase.” This... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Sir Cresswell Cresswell - 1826 - 1076 páginas
...The rule in Shelley's case (a) will be relied on by the defendant. That rule is, that if the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold,...either mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or tail, the words " the heirs" are words of limitation of the estate and not words of purchase. In Feame's... | |
 | Sir Edward Coke - 1826 - 734 páginas
...as heir special ought to be heir general as well as heir special (t). Rule, that where the ancestor takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, cither mediately or immediately, to bis heirs, either in !'<••• or in tail, the heirs arc words... | |
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