Commentaries on American Law, Volume 4W. Kent, 1848 - Law |
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... purchaser , and of the blood of the person last seised . It is an estate of perpe- tuity , and confers an unlimited power of alienation , and no person is capable of having a greater estate or in- terest in land . Every restraint upon ...
... purchaser , and of the blood of the person last seised . It is an estate of perpe- tuity , and confers an unlimited power of alienation , and no person is capable of having a greater estate or in- terest in land . Every restraint upon ...
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... purchaser as well as the heir holding under the husband , or deriving title from under him , is estopped from denying the husband's title . Taylor's case , Sir William Jones ' Rep . 317 . Hitchcock v . Harrington , 6 Johns . Rep . 290 ...
... purchaser as well as the heir holding under the husband , or deriving title from under him , is estopped from denying the husband's title . Taylor's case , Sir William Jones ' Rep . 317 . Hitchcock v . Harrington , 6 Johns . Rep . 290 ...
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... purchaser's deed . In the cases of Harrison v . El- dridge , and Barker v . Parker , the wife's interest in the equity of redemption , in a mortgage executed by her and her husband , was held not to be sold by a sale of her husband's ...
... purchaser's deed . In the cases of Harrison v . El- dridge , and Barker v . Parker , the wife's interest in the equity of redemption , in a mortgage executed by her and her husband , was held not to be sold by a sale of her husband's ...
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... purchaser as a qualified fee , subject to be divested by an exercise of the power , ( for the power is not merged in ... purchaser's wife . The better opinion is , that the dower is defeated by the execution New - York Revised Statutes ...
... purchaser as a qualified fee , subject to be divested by an exercise of the power , ( for the power is not merged in ... purchaser's wife . The better opinion is , that the dower is defeated by the execution New - York Revised Statutes ...
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... purchaser's power . A more sure way to bar the dower , was by the introduction of a trustee into the conveyance , and limiting the lands to such persons as the purchaser should appoint ; and in de- fault of , and until such appointment ...
... purchaser's power . A more sure way to bar the dower , was by the introduction of a trustee into the conveyance , and limiting the lands to such persons as the purchaser should appoint ; and in de- fault of , and until such appointment ...
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Page 449 - Every contract for the leasing for a longer period than one year, .or for the sale of any lands or any interest in lands, shall be void, unless the contract, or some note or memorandum thereof, expressing the consideration, be in writing, and be subscribed by the party by whom the lease or sale is to be made.
Page 213 - It is a rule in law when the ancestor by any gift cr 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 271 - The absolute power of alienation shall not be suspended by any limitation or condition whatever, for a longer period than during the continuance of not more than two lives in being at the creation of the estate, except in the single case mentioned in the next section.
Page 203 - The present capacity of taking effect in possession, if the possession were to become vacant, and not the certainty that the possession will become vacant before the estate limited in remainder determines, universally distinguishes a vested remainder from one that is contingent.
Page 514 - ... at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction; and such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, and such witnesses shall attest and shall subscribe the will in the presence of the testator, but no form of attestation shall be necessary.
Page 375 - ... part of the personal estate ; and this law relative to descents and dower, shall remain in full force, until altered by the legislature of the district.
Page 2 - All lands within this State are declared to be allodial, so that, subject only to the liability to escheat, the entire and absolute property is vested in the owners according to the nature of their respective estates.
Page 212 - Every disposition of real property, whether by deed or by devise, shall be made directly to the person in whom the right to the possession and profits is intended to be vested, and not to...
Page 536 - We may lay it down as an incontrovertible rule that, where an estate is given to a person generally or indefinitely with a power of disposition...