 | Sir Thomas Wardlaw Taylor, John Skirving Ewart - 1881 - 784 pàgines
...aa against any subsequent mortgagee or person having a charge on the same property. Merger is where a greater estate and a less coincide, and meet in one and the same person in the same right, without any intermediate estate, in which case the less is immediately annihilated,... | |
 | Leonard Augustus Jones - 1882 - 890 pàgines
...874-885. PART I. MERGER. 848. Merger at law and in equity. — In law a merger always takes place when a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one and the same person, in one and the same right, without any intermediate estate. The lesser estate is annihilated or merged... | |
 | James Williams - 1883 - 290 pàgines
...reversion to the tenant for life ; (4) forfeiture. 4. " It is a general principle of law, that where a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one...be merged, that is, sunk or drowned in the greater" (1 Stephen, bk. ii. pt. i. eh. vii.), See the Jud. Act, 1873, s. 25 (4). Tit. V. Usus and habitatio... | |
 | Charles Theodore Boone - 1883 - 566 pàgines
...282. Compare Henderson ». Cardwell, 9 Baxt. 389; 40 Am. Rep. 93. § 37. How affected by merger. — Whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one and tlie same person, without any intermediate estate, the less is said to be merged, that is, sunk or... | |
 | 1894 - 1156 pàgines
...and meet in one and the same person in the same right, without any intermediary estate, the lesser is immediately annihilated, or, In the law phrase, is said to be merged— that is.sunk or drowned— in the greater. In equity the rule is different. Rumpp v. Gerkens, 59 Gal. 496.... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Herbert Francis Manisty, Charles Francis Cagney - 1884 - 1078 pàgines
...person without any intermediate estate, the less is immediately annihilated ; or in the law phraseology is said to be merged, that is sunk or drowned in the greater ; or to express the same thing in other words, the greater estate is accelerated so as to become at... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1885 - 626 pàgines
...generally, the reversion will not pass. Before quitting remainders and reversions, it may be observed that whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and...intermediate estate, the less is immediately annihilated; merged, that is, sunk or drowned in the greater. Thus if there be tenant for years, and the reversion... | |
 | 1888 - 956 pàgines
...plaintiff's deed vests the reversion in the defendant; and, the greater and less coinciding and uniting in one and the same person, without any intermediate estate, the less is immediately annihilated, and the defendant acquires an estate in fee-simple. 2 Bl. Сошш. 177. Ruasell Bradford, for defendant.... | |
 | Joshua Williams - 1886 - 510 pàgines
...the law, does his estate last.(i) *It is rule of law that " whenever a greater estate and t-^nu-i i a less coincide and meet in one and the same person,...merged, that is, sunk or drowned, in the greater."(£) From the operation of this rule, an estate tail is preserved by the effect of the statute De donls,(t)... | |
 | 1895 - 1172 pàgines
...the life estate is merged in the fee. "When a less estate and a greater, limited subsequent to it, coincide and meet in one and the same person, without...the less is Immediately annihilated, or, in the law phraseology, is said to be merged — that is, sunk or drowned — in the greater; or, to express the... | |
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Before we conclude the doctrine of remainders and reversions, it may be proper to observe, that f whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one and the same person, without any intermediate estate/ the less is immediately annihilated;!... 
