 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 1090 pages
...insects, and sea-wccd. Sbetf (A.-Sax. scylf). On Shipboard, a ' o tadinal timber running around the inner any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold,...in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited to his heirs, the words the heirs are words of limitation of the estate of tho ancestor, ie they are... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 1090 pages
...insects, and sea-weed. Shelf (A.-Sax. scylf). On Shipboard, a longitudinal timber running around the inner any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold,...in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited to his heirs, the words the heirs are words of limitation of the estate of tho ancestor, ie they are... | |
 | Ransom Hebbard Tyler - Children - 1868 - 984 pages
...often referred to, was stated, on the authority of the Tear Books, to be " that when the ancestor, 58 by any gift or conveyance, takes an estate of freehold,...mediately or immediately, to his heirs, in fee or in tail, tJie heirs are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase.'' (Shelltys case, 1 Coke's... | |
 | Law - 1869 - 370 pages
...particular section of law just allnded to. "The rule in Shelley's case;"—"that when the ancestor, hy any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold,...either mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or tail, the word ' heirs ' is a word of limitation of the estate of the ancestor," who takes Shortly,... | |
 | Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth - Law - 1914 - 1010 pages
...thus: "When the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance (assurance), takes an estate of freehold, and by the same gift or conveyance, an estate is limited,...mediately or immediately, to his heirs in fee or in tail, in such case the expression 'the heirs' are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase."... | |
 | William Pinckney Fishback, Arnold Bennett Hall - Law - 1915 - 576 pages
...104 as follows : "It is a rule of law, where an ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate in 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 case the heirs are words... | |
 | Home economics - 1915 - 2086 pages
..."Coke on Littleton." He writes theie as follows, " When the ancestor by any gift or conveyance taketh an 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." Now you know all about... | |
 | John R. Cox - Admission to the bar - 1916 - 614 pages
...the court the duty of effecting it. 130. What is the rule in Shelly's case? • It is a rule of law when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takes...the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, mediately or immediately, to his heirs in fee or entail, that always in such case "his heirs" are words... | |
 | Walter Thomas Dunmore - Wills - 1916 - 348 pages
...whenever the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, took an estate of freehold, (an estate for life,) and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately, to "his heirs," or to the "heirs of his body" as a class, to take in succession as heirs to him, such words are words... | |
 | Walter Thomas Dunmore - Wills - 1916 - 346 pages
...whenever the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, took an estate of freehold, (an estate for life,) and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately, to "his heirs," or to the "heirs of his body" as a class, to take in succession as heirs to him, such words are words... | |
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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... 
