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'... Commentaries on American Law - Page 213by James Kent - 1848Full view - About this book
| John Tracy Atkyns, Great Britain. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1781 - 792 pages
...any gift or. conveyance takes an eftate of freehold, and in the fame gift or conveyance an cítate is limited' either mediately or immediately to his heirs^ in fee or in tail, that always, in fuch cafes, the heirs are words of limitations of the eftate, açd not words of purchaie,... | |
| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1790 - 460 pages
...in faying, that, when there is, in the fame conveyance, a limitation to the anceftor, for life, and, mediately or immediately, to his heirs in fee, or in tail, the words, " hit heir," are not words of purcbafe. When there is an intermediate vefied remainder, as in... | |
| Sir Edward Coke - Land tenure - 1794 - 552 pages
...any gift or conveyance takes an eftate of freehold, and in the fame gift, or conveyance, an eftate is limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs in fee, or in tail, " the heirs," in fuel» cafes, are words of limitation of the eftate, and not words of pur. chafe ; yet this applies... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1794 - 676 pages
...any gift or conveyance, takes an eftate of freehold, and in the " fame gift or conveyance an eftate is limited, either mediately " or immediately, to his heirs in fee or in tail, that always in fuch " cafes tbe heirs are words of limitation, and not words of pur" chafe:" and the... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1794 - 700 pages
...any gift or conveyance, takes an eftate of freehold, and in the " fame gift or conveyance an eftate is limited, either mediately " or immediately, to his heirs in fee or in tail, that always in fuch " cafes the heirs are words of limitation, and not words of pur«' chafe :" and... | |
| 1794 - 614 pages
...by any gift or conveyance takes an ellate of freehold, and in the fame gift and conveyance an eflate is limited either mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, always in fuch cafes heirs are words of limitation of the ellate, and not words of purchafe." On the... | |
| Great Britain. Courts - Law - 1795 - 784 pages
...copy, gift, or conveyance, takes an eftate of freehold, and in the fame gift or conveyance an eftate is limited either mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, that always in fuch cafes (the heirs) are words of limitation of the eftate, and not words of purchafe."... | |
| William Cruise - Real property - 1804 - 604 pages
...gift or conveyance takes " an eftate of freehold, and, in the fame gift or con<( veyance, an eftate is limited either mediately or '* immediately to his heirs, in fee or in tail, that al" ways, in rach cafes, (the hcirs)5 are words of limi" tation of the eftate, and not words of... | |
| Francis Bacon - Uses (Law) - 1806 - 308 pages
...that case thus defined — ' When the '• ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of '• freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance 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... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 698 pages
...case, 1 Co. 104. is this, viz. " when the ancestor, by any gift " or conveyance, takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or " conveyance an...or immediately, " to his heirs in fee or in tail, that always in such cases the helrt arc " words of limitation, and not words of purchase :" and the... | |
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