An Essay on Uses and Trusts: And on the Nature and Operation of Conveyances at Common Law, and Those Deriving Their Effect from the Statute of Uses, Volume 1

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Page 307 - Appointment, to be sealed and delivered, by her, in the presence of, and attested by Two or more credible Witnesses, or by her last Will and Testament in writing, or any...
Page 230 - Nothing is better established than this principle, that money directed to be employed in the purchase of land, and land directed to be sold and turned into money, are to be considered as that species of property into which they are directed to be converted...
Page 313 - ... attested by two or more credible witnesses, or by his last will and testament in writing, or any writing in the nature of or purporting to be his last will and testament, or any codicil or codicils thereto...
Page 316 - Duberly, by any deed or deeds, writing or writings, with or without power of revocation and new appointment, to be by him sealed and delivered in the presence of, and to be attested by two or more credible witnesses...
Page 84 - ... or other hereditaments, to the use, confidence, or trust of any other person or persons...
Page 65 - ... shall from henceforth stand and be seised, deemed and adjudged in lawful seisin, estate and possession of and in the same honours, castles, manors, lands, tenements, rents, services, reversions, remainders, and hereditaments, with their appurtenances, to all intents, constructions and purposes in the law, of and in such like estates as they had or shall have in use, trust or confidence of or in the same...
Page 314 - Rowley by any deed or deeds, instrument or instruments in writing, with or without power of revocation and new appointment, to be by him sealed and delivered in the presence of and attested by two or more credible witnesses...
Page 135 - Thus, if the land be limited to the use of A. for life, remainder to the use of the oldest son of B.
Page 63 - ... divers and sundry imaginations, subtle inventions and practices have been used, whereby the hereditaments of this realm have been conveyed from one to another by fraudulent feoffments, fines, recoveries, and other assurances craftily made to secret uses, intents and trusts...
Page 103 - JS in fee, to the use of A. for life, remainder to the use of his first son unborn in tail, •with remainder to the use of B.

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