 | Francis Bacon - Uses (Law) - 1806 - 308 pages
...the rule in Shelley's case, and which was in that case thus defined — ' When the '• ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of '• freehold,...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)... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 698 pages
...observe, that the much-talkcd-of rule in Shelly's case, 1 Co. 104. is this, viz. " when the ancestor, by any gift " or conveyance, takes an estate of freehold,...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 helrt... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sylvester Douglas Baron Glenbervie - Law reports, digests, etc - 1813 - 1010 pages
...6rst and subsequent limitations are in the same instrument. The words are : " When the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, " takes an estate of freehold, and, in the same gift or con" veyance, an estate is limited, either mediately or im" mediately, to his heirs in fee, or in tail,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1813 - 502 pages
...first and subsequent limitations are in the same instrument. The words are : " When the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, " takes an estate of freehold, and, in the same gif't or con" veyance, an estate is limited, either mediately or ira" mediately, to his heirs in fee, or in... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Charles Durnford, Sir Edward Hyde East - Law reports, digests, etc - 1817 - 708 pages
...in Shelley'* case (a), and recognized in a variety of subsequent cases, is 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; the word " heirs" is a word... | |
 | Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, John Henry Thomas - Land tenure - 1818 - 752 pages
...inconveniences, was the origin of (he rule of law, laid down in Shelley's case, viz. that " when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takes an estate of freehold,...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... | |
 | William Cruise - Real property - 1818 - 596 pages
...this, it appears to have been very early established, as a rule of law, that " when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold,...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)... | |
 | Charles Barton - Conveyancing - 1822 - 690 pages
...danis, takes by descent. Thus, -by the rule in Shelley's case, so often mentioned, when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takes an estate of freehold,...the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs, in fee or in tail, the word heirs, is a word of limitation... | |
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It is a rule in law, when the ancestor by any gift or 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'... 
