 | Henry John Stephen - English law - 1841 - 626 pages
...being always subject (among each other) to the same law of inheritance as contained in the third rule. [Thus the child, grandchild, or great-grandchild,...eldest son, succeeds before the younger son, and so in infinitum(g); and these representatives shall take neither more nor less, but just so much as their... | |
 | Henry Kent Staple Causton - Inheritance and succession - 1842 - 346 pages
...to perform the services reserved. * CANON IV. 'The lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor ; that is,...person himself would have done, had he been living. By this rule the child, grandchild or great grandchild, either male or female, of the eldest son succeeds... | |
 | Charles Davidson, Thomas Martin (of Lincoln's Inn.) - Conveyancing - 1844 - 692 pages
...any person deceased shall reperson deceased . . in • simii represent present their ancestor ; te shall stand in the same place as the person himself...had he been living. Thus the child, grandchild, or great grandchild (either male or female) of the eldest son succeeds before the younger son, and so... | |
 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - Personal property - 1844 - 684 pages
...infinitum, of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor ; that is, shall stand in [ 217 ] the same place as the person himself would have done, had he been living ; and this rule likewise is unaltered. J Somncr. Gavclk. 7. See ante, 180. ' Ibid. ' Co. Litt. 165.... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1845 - 544 pages
...preferred to the collateral. It is a rule of descent that the lineal descendants in infinitum of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor, that is,...person himself would have done had he been living (»). Hence it is that the son or grandchild, whether son or daughter, of the eldest son succeeds before... | |
 | Joshua Williams - Real property - 1845 - 458 pages
...coheirs (a). 4. The fourth rule is, that all the lineal descendants in Rule 4. infinitum of any person deceased, shall represent their ancestor ; that is,...person himself would have done, had he been living (a-). Thus, in the case above mentioned, on the death of William the eldest son, leaving a son, that... | |
 | Charles Watkins, Henry Hopley White, George Morley, Richard Holmes Coote - Conveyancing - 1845 - 642 pages
...canon remains unaltered. The fourth canon is, " That the lineal descendants in injiidtiun of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor, that is,...as the person himself would have done, had he been living.f This canon remains unaltered; this is called succession per stirpes, according to the roots,... | |
 | William Hughes - Conveyancing - 1846 - 512 pages
...unaltered. The fourth rule or canon of descents, is, that the lineal descendants- in infinitum of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor, that is,...would have done had he been living. Thus the child, grandehild, or great-grandchild, either male or female, succeeds before the younger son, and so in... | |
 | Law - 1847 - 576 pages
...however, is a fallacy; the rule is, "that the lineal descendants in iufinitum of any person decea-.-il shall represent their ancestor, that is, shall stand...the same place as the person himself would have done lud he been living." (2 Black. Com. 21í¡). JS'ow, in what place would the deceased daughter have... | |
 | Law - 1848 - 558 pages
...coparceners. The same is now the case (g). 4. "The lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased, shall represent their ancestor; that is,...or female, of the eldest son, succeeds before the youngest son, and so in infinitum. But these representatives shall neither take more nor less than... | |
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The lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor; that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done, had he been living. 
