 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...  Term Reports in the Court of King's Bench - Page 443by Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Charles Durnford, Sir Edward Hyde East - 1817Full view - About this book
 | William Hayes - Remainders (Estates) - 1824 - 436 pages
...words would be void ; the defendant's counsel answered, that it is a RULE OF LAW when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold...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.... | |
 | William Hayes - Remainders (Estates) - 1824 - 542 pages
...subsequent wqrds would be void; the defendant's counsel answered, that it is a RULE OF LAW when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold...conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immedialeli/,1.0 hisheirs, in fee, or in tail; thata\wa.js, in such cases^ the heirs are words of limitation... | |
 | William Cruise - Real property - 1824 - 528 pages
...remedy 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,...same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either immediately or mediately, to his heirs, in fee or in tail ; that always in such cases, the heirs are... | |
 | 1828 - 746 pages
...takes an estate of freehold, sod in the same gift or con. • Reported I Vdlleet.Jut¿283. vayence, an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, in all such cases the heirs are words of li'nitaLion of the estate, and not words of purchase.” This... | |
 | Sir Edward Coke - Law reports, digests, etc - 1826 - 734 pages
...as heir special ought to be heir general as well as heir special (t). Rule, that where the ancestor takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, cither mediately or immediately, to bis heirs, either in !'<••• or in tail, the heirs arc words... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1829 - 532 pages
...limitation, and not of purchase. The rule in Shelly's case, (1 Coke Rep. 104,) is this: "where the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takes an estate of freehold,...mediately or immediately to his heirs, in fee, or in tail, in such cases the word heirs, are always words of limitation, and not words of purchase." The remainder... | |
 | Sir Edward Coke, John Henry Thomas - Land tenure - 1827 - 884 pages
...subsequent conveyance or devise to hi» right heirs. For though it is a rule, that where tb,e ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gilt, or conveyance. an est. te is limited, either mediately or immediately to hie heirs in fee, or... | |
 | English literature - 1828 - 724 pages
...thus expressed by my Lord Goke in his report of Shelley's case (1. Co. 93) : — " Where the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold,...mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, in all such cases the heirs are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase." This... | |
 | John Reeves - Law - 1829 - 280 pages
...or they would have no sense or effect, they laid down this old rule of law, that where an ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takes an estate of freehold,...mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, then heirs are words of limitation, and not words of purchase ; and this they supported by the Provost... | |
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