 | Jacob D. Wheeler - 1836 - 624 Seiten
...ROGERS T, ROGERS, 3 ib. 51-1. The rule in Shelly's case, ie, " where the ancestor by way W01!j"jln'e of gift or conveyance, takes an estate of freehold and in the same tlie wil! . J ' !• i • must give •gift or conveyance, an estate is limited, either mediately... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs - 1837 - 330 Seiten
...Litt., 223a.) Hence the rule in the famous case of Shelley, (1 Co. R. 9.;) which was, " that • when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, ' takes an...the same gift or ' conveyance an estate is limited mediately, or im' mediately, to his heirs, or the heirs of his body, ' that the words ' heirs, "&c.... | |
 | Charles Watkins - 1837 - 336 Seiten
...the heirs shall be in BY DESCENT. As, "when the ancestor, by any gift or con- Limitation to veyance, takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either Vlde post' mediately or immediately, to his heirs, in fee or in tail, the words " the heirs," are WORDS... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, Robert Philip Tyrwhitt, Thomas Colpitts Granger - 1837 - 1230 Seiten
...adopted by Fearne, 7th edit. p. 29, who, after quoting the passage from Rol. Abr. says, that " whenever 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,... | |
 | Charles Watkins, Henry Hopley White - 1838 - 596 Seiten
...ancestor so taking the freehold ; and, therefore, is not contingent or in abeyance. 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,... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1841 - 626 Seiten
...(a). This rule is propounded in Lord Coke's Reports in the following form — that wherever a man, by any gift or conveyance, takes an estate of freehold,...mediately or immediately, to his heirs in fee or in tail, the word heirs is a word of limitation, and not of pnrchase(b). In other words, it is to be understood... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - 1842 - 812 Seiten
...thus stated ; " When the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, passes an estate of freehold, and ill the same gift or conveyance, an estate is limited,...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,"... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1844 - 896 Seiten
...relied on is an ancient canon of the common law, known as the rule in Shelly's case. [1 Rep. 93.] "Where the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takes an...mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, the terms heirs are words of limitation and not words of purchase." The effect produced by the rule... | |
 | 1845 - 490 Seiten
...of the body of such heirs male.i The rule in that case was defined to be "a rule of law, that when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate...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."... | |
 | Charles Fearne, Charles Butler - 1845 - 584 Seiten
...likewise, wherever 1 Inst. 22, b. body, this is not a contingent remainder to the heir of the body 417. the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and there is afterwards in the same gift or conveyance a limita1 Rep. 104. ti on t on i s right heirs,... | |
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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'... 
