 | William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 698 pages
...the lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person [217] deceased shall represent their ancestor; that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done, had he been living. THUS the child, grandchild, or great-grandchild (either male or female) of the eldest son succeeds... | |
 | Hugh Henry Brackenridge - Law - 1814 - 608 pages
...4th. "The lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person [eceased shall represent their ancestor; that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done, had he been living." [ Our act adopts this canon, but in the application of the ^ role, there is no preference of the eldest... | |
 | Thomas Potts - Law - 1815 - 836 pages
...injinitum, of any perron deceased, shall represent their ancestor ; that is, shall stand in the lame place as the person himself would have done had he been living thus the child, grand-child, or great grand child (either male or female), of the eldest son, succeeds... | |
 | Richard Preston - Abstracts of title - 1818 - 486 pages
...4thly, Lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased, shall represent, their ancestor ; that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done had he been living. 5thly, On failure of lineal descendants or issue of the person last seised, the inheritance shall descend... | |
 | Charles Watkins - Inheritance and succession - 1819 - 362 pages
...together. 4. The lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor : that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done had he been living (b). 5. On out their title ^to each other, the common father need not be named : but the descent between... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 394 pages
...altogether. 3. The lineal descendants, in infuitnm, of any person deceased, shall represent their ancestor ; that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done had he been living: thus the child, grand-child, or great grandchild, (either male or female) of the eldest son succeeds... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 328 pages
...IV. The lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased, shall represent their ancestor, or stand in the same place as the person himself would have done, had he been living. V. On failure of lineal descendants, or issue, of the person last seised, the inheritance shall descend... | |
 | Charles Barton - Conveyancing - 1822 - 690 pages
...rcprolineal descendants, in injinitum, of any person deceased 1eruat,0"shall represent their ancestor ; that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done, had he been living. Thus the child, grandchild, or great-grandchild (either male or female) of the eldest son succeeds... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 896 pages
...4. " The lineal descendants in inßnitum, of any person deceased, shall represent their ancestor ; that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done had he been living." Thus the child, grand-child, or great-grand-child (either male or female), of the eldest son, succeeds... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...that the lineal descendants, in ir\finituni, of any person deceased, shall represent their ancestor; that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done, had he been living. Thus the child, grandchild, or great-grandchild (either male or female) of the eldest son, succeeds... | |
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The lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor; that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done, had he been living. 
