 | John E. Alexander - Wills - 1918 - 996 pages
...Rule in Shelley's Case Defined. In Shelley's Case the rule was laid down as a rule of law, that where the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate...conveyance an estate is limited either mediately or immediCOMMENTARIES ON THE LAW OP WILLS. ately to his heirs in fee or in tail, the word "heirs" is a... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 1106 pages
...decision itself (Wolfe v. Shelley, 1 Coke, 03b, 7G Eng. Rep. Reprint, 206, 234), it was a rule of law that — "When the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the ваше gift or conveyance an estate is limited either mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee... | |
 | Paul Vinogradoff - Law - 1920 - 452 pages
...Shelley 's Case, by which it was laid down that when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takes the estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited to his heirs in fee or in tail, the term lieirs constitutes words of limitation of the estate of the... | |
 | Law - 1920 - 904 pages
...reported in 1 Coke'a Rep. side paging 93 b., wherein, among other rulings, it was held, where the ancestor takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance, and estate is limited either mediately or immediately to his heirs, either in fee or In tail, the heirs... | |
 | Nebraska. Supreme Court, David Allen Campbell, Guy Ashton Brown, Lorenzo Crounse, Walter Alber Leese, Lee Herdmen, Henry Clay Lindsay, Henry Paxon Stoddart - Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 980 pages
...decision itself (Wolfe v. Shelley, 1 Coke, 93b, 76 Eng. Rep. Reprint, 206, 2o4), it was a rule of law that "when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance...of freehold, and in the 'same gift or conveyance an estato is limited either mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, that always in such... | |
 | Edward Jenkins Whitehead - Real property - 1922 - 1030 pages
...and is reported in I Coke's Rep., p. 93b, wherein among other rulings, it was held, when an ancestor takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift...estate is limited either mediately or immediately to the heirs, either in fee or in tail, the heirs are words of limitation of the estate, and not words... | |
 | Yancey Lewis - Real property - 1925 - 214 pages
...based does not occur, however, the remainder fails, irrespective of the termination of the estate. or conveyance, takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, mediately or imme-> diately, to his heirs in fee or in tail, that always in such case "his heirs" are... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 1228 pages
...Wilson, 14 SW 778, 89 Tenn. 270. In the last case cited this court stated the rule as follows: "Whenever the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold in lands or tenements, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is afterwards limited by way of... | |
 | Percy George Osborn - Latin language - 1927 - 374 pages
...Held, the defendant was not liable. Shelley's Case, Rule in ( (1581), 1 Co. 93 b). Where the ancestor takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift...limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs or the heirs of his body, the word " heirs " is a word of limitation and not of purchase ; so that... | |
 | James Andrew Strahan - Conveyancing - 1927 - 498 pages
...known as the rule in Shelley's Case. Rule stated. The rule may be stated thus :— It is a rule of law when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes...freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate of inheritance is limited either mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, that always... | |
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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 ' are words... 
