An Analysis: Arranged to Serve Also as a Compendious Digested Index of Mr. Fearne's Essay on Contingent Remainders and Executory Devises, and of Mr. Butler's Notes |
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ancestor attain 21 baron and feme bequest body Brown's C. C. Burr cease cestui chattel common law common recovery conditional limitation contingent estate contingent remainders conveyance copyholds Court of Chancery court of equity decease descent determination devised to trustees doctrine entitled equity estate be limited estate of freehold estate tail executory devise failure of issue feme covert feoffees feoffment gent remainders Goodright grantor heir at law heirs male held intent issue male lands were devised lease legacy legal estate lives Loddington Lord mainder marriage particular estate Peere Wms personalty præcipe preceding estate proviso Raym rents right heirs right of entry RULE IN SHELLEY'S Salk seisin settlement statute subsequent limitation supra survivor take effect taker Talb Temp tenant in tail term testator's tingent remainders tion trustees to preserve unless Vern vested estate vise void wife word heirs words of limitation words of purchase
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Page 146 - It is a rule of 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' are words of limitation of the estate and not words of purchase,
Page 58 - The rule simply is that where an estate of freehold is limited to a person, and the same instrument contains a limitation, either mediate or immediate, to his heirs, or the heirs of his body, the word 'heirs' is a word of limitation; ie, the ancestor takes the whole estate comprised in this term.
Page 116 - And thus, where money was by will directed to be laid out on land, and settled to the use of A. for life, and after his decease to the heirs male of his body...
Page 89 - Cornish and the heirs of her body lawfully begotten or to be begotten, as well females as males...
Page 80 - ... is so limited that it must take effect, if at all, within twentyone years after the period of a life then in being, may be good in event, if no one of the preceding limitations which would carry the whole interest happens to vest.
Page 116 - It was a gift to A. for life, remainder to trustees to preserve contingent remainders, remainder to the first and other sons in tail male, and, on failure of such issue, to others.
Page 55 - B. and the survivor of them, and the heirs of such survivor, in trust to sell...
Page 104 - Tarleton for life, with remainder to her first and other sons in tail male, with sundry other remainders to unborn children; and with the ultimate remainder to John Tarleton in fee.
Page 31 - Woodford, and the survivors and survivor of them, and the heirs and assigns of such survivor, do and shall...
Page 146 - 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, after some other estate for life or in tail, interposed between his freehold and such limitation to his heirs, this remainder to his heirs vests in the ancestor as a remainder, and shall not be in contingency or abeyance.