 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 620 pages
...to his legal heirs at law." This devise comes clearly within the rule in Sheltys case, (I Co. 104.) "When the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes...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 word of purchase." 2 Black.... | |
 | James Kent - 1826-1830 - 1830 - 556 pages
...several cases in the Year Books, to be, "that when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takethan estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance...mediately or 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... | |
 | Charles Petersdorff - Law - 1831 - 592 pages
...Shelly';) c;ise, viz., That when the ancestor by any gift or convoyan' e, lakes an estate of freehold, und in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited,...mediately or immediately, to his heirs in fee or in fail, that always in each cases *'lhe heirs" arc words of lirrrhation of the estate, and not words... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 972 pages
...of the seisin which A. had as tenant for life;" for, according to the rule in Shelley 's case (5), " when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takes...his heirs in fee or in tail, always in such case the word " heirs" is a word of limitation of the estate, and not a word of purchase." Consequently^ a*... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1833 - 1054 pages
...estates tail in the property devised; for this falls within the rule in Shelley's case (a), that where the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takes an...mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, in such case, heirs are words of limitation and not words of purchase; and the remainder is executed... | |
 | James Ram - Debtor and creditor - 1835 - 642 pages
...actually seised. (0 SECTION II. OF THE BULB IN SHK LT.K v's CASE. THE rule in Shelley's case is: " When the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes...mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail: *that always, in such cases, the word ' heirs' is ar *112 i word of limitation of the estate, and not... | |
 | William Cruise, Henry Hopley White - Law reports, digests, etc. Great Britain - 1835 - 486 pages
...very early esta- How mediate blished, as a rule of law, that " when the ancestor, by any gift vested. or conveyance, takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift 319"?.' or conveyance an estate is limited, either immediately or mediately, to his heirs, in fee or... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 852 pages
...acknowledged rule of law, and, ever since, generally called the rule in Shelly'icase. This rule is, that "when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takes...immediately, to his heirs in fee or in tail, always in such cases the words ' the heirs' are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase." In... | |
 | Sir Edward Coke, John Henry Thomas - Land tenure - 1836 - 796 pages
...which inconveniences, was the origin of the rule of law, laid down in Shelley's еаяе, viz. that " when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takes...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."... | |
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Coke (vo1. 1, 1040,) is, 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, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs in fee or in tail, that always in such cases... 
