A Treatise on the American Law of Real Property, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1864 - Real property |
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Abst acquired adverse adverse possession applied appointment Barb bargain and sale Butler's note cestui que trust cited claim common law consideration Cont contingent remainder Conv convey conveyance court courts of equity covenant of warranty covenant to stand created Cruise Cush death declared deed descendants doctrine dominant estate easement enjoyment entry equity estopped estoppel executed executory devise favor Fearne fee-simple feme covert feoffee feoffment freehold grant grantor Gray heirs held husband inheritance intention interest issue Jackson Johns Kent land Law Tracts lease legal estate Lewin limitation Mass owner parcel particular estate party pass Penn person Pick possession premises Prest purchaser Real Prop rent respect resulting trust rule seisin servient estate Shep Smith Spence stand seised Stat statute Sugd take effect tenant thereby valid vested void Watk Wend wife
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Page 523 - ... the right to make such entry or distress or to bring such action shall have first accrued to some person through whom he claims...
Page 383 - 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 525 - ... 1. Where it has been usually cultivated or improved; 2. Where it has been protected by a substantial inclosure; 3.
Page 736 - The statutes provide that, in order to be valid, a will or codicil must be signed by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, "and attested and subscribed in his presence by three or more competent witnesses.
Page 430 - If the decedent leaves several children, or one child and the issue of one or more children, and any such surviving child dies under age and not having been married, all the estate that came to the deceased child by inheritance from such decedent descends in equal shares to the other children of the same parent and to the issue of any such other children who are dead, by right of representation.
Page 383 - ... a contingent remainder in fee may be created on a prior remainder in fee, to take effect in the event that the persons to whom the first remainder is limited, die under the age of twenty-one years, or on any other contingency by which the estate of such persons may be determined before they attain full age. For the purposes of this section, a minority is deemed a part of a life, and not an absolute term equal to the possible duration of such minority.
Page 573 - And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
Page 518 - Whenever a person having color of title, made in good faith, to vacant and unoccupied land, shall pay all taxes legally assessed thereon, for seven successive years, he or she shall be deemed and adjudged to be the legal owner of said vacant and unoccupied land, to the extent and according to the purport of his or her paper title.
Page 743 - Majesty, and her most noble progenitors, as by sundry other well-disposed persons: some for relief of aged, impotent and poor people, some for maintenance of sick and maimed soldiers and mariners, schools of learning, free schools, and scholars in universities, some for repair of bridges, ports, havens, causeways, churches, seabanks and highways, some for education and preferment of orphans...
Page 516 - An action, the limitation of which is not specially prescribed in this or the last title, must be commenced within ten years after the cause of action accrues.