 | 1845 - 490 pàgines
...to be "a rule of law, that when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited,...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 purchase."... | |
 | George Spence - 1846 - 708 pàgines
...a very early period, that when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited...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 (i), and not words of... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1846 - 624 pàgines
...Shelly's case, (I Co. 104.) "When the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited...mediately or immediately to his heirs. in fee or in tail: always in such cases the word "heirs " is a word of limitation of the estate, and not a W9rd of purchase."... | |
 | Charles Broadbelt Claydon - 1847 - 524 pàgines
...Shelley's case (t). It is that, whenever a man by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited...in tail, the word " heirs" is a word of limitation and not of purchase ; that is, it is to be understood as expressing the quantity of estate which the... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1847 - 556 pàgines
...is a rule of law, that when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takes an estate of freehold ; and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited,...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 purchase."... | |
 | James Kent - 1848 - 798 pàgines
...Books, to be, " that when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance, taketh an estate of *215 freehold, and in the same *gift or conveyance an estate is limited,...immediately, to his heirs, in fee or in tail, the heirs are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase." Mr. Preston, in his elaborate... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1848 - 702 pàgines
...in Shelley's Case, "that when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, taketh an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited,...immediately, to his heirs in fee, or in tail, the heirs are words of limitation and not words of purchase." (1 Reports 104 ;) or in Wild's case, "that... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - 1848 - 786 pàgines
...is stated to be "that when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, taketh an estate of free-hold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited,...or immediately, to his heirs in fee or in tail, the heirs arc words of limitation of the estate and not words of purchase." 4 Kent, 206. Hays on the disposition... | |
 | 1849 - 734 pàgines
...the rule in Shelley's case, " wherever a man, by any gift or conveyance, tHkes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited,...or in tail, the word heirs is a word of limitation and not of purchase." Consequently CD will not take a life estate, as above supposed, but a remainder... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1849 - 620 pàgines
...succeeded in establishing the celebrated rule, that " Where the ancestor takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs either in fee or in tail, 'heirs' is a word of limitation, so that the ancestor has in him an estate... | |
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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'... 
