 | 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
...the son in the distribution of the undevised estate. Idem 201 4. Where an estate is given to a person generally or indefinitely, with a power of disposition, it carries a fee; and an attempted limitation over is void. Park, et al. v. McCombs, et al 327 5. But if the first taker... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1851 - 694 pages
...the opinion of the Court of Errors, takes occasion to remark that when an estate is given to a person generally or indefinitely, with a 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... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Common law - 1835 - 632 pages
...** 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... | |
 | N. Saxton, New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1836 - 766 pages
...generally, with a power of disposition, it carries a fee. The only exception to this rule is, where the testator gives, to the first taker, an estate for life only, by express words, and annexes to it a power of disposal ; in that case the devisee for life will not... | |
 | 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 - 1910 - 806 pages
...(NY) 588: "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, it carries a fee. The only exception to the rule is where the testator gives to the first taker an estate for life only,... | |
 | 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
...(NY) 588: " "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, it carries a fee. The only exception to the rule is where the testator gives to the first taker an estate for life only,... | |
 | 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 - 1907 - 832 pages
...said: " ' 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, it carries a fee ; and the only exception to the rule is, where the testator gives to the first taker an estate for... | |
 | Thomas Jarman - Wills - 1859 - 604 pages
...Humphrey, 18 Pick. 537. See Josselyn v. Hutchinson, 21 Maine, 339. If an estate be given to a person generally, or indefinitely, with a power of disposition,...gives to the first taker an estate for life only, and annexed to it a power of disposition of the reversion. See 4 Kent, (5th ed.) 535, 536 : Jackson v.... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1847 - 824 pages
...authorities, said: " we may lay it down as an incontrovertible rule, that when an estate is given to a person generally or indefinitely, with a power of disposition, it carries a fee; and the only exception to the rule, is, where the testator gives to the first taker an estate for life... | |
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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... 
