 | William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 698 pages
...distributive shares, of intestate personal property. See past, 504. 515. I. THE first rule is, that inheritances shall lineally descend to the issue of the person who last died actually seised, in ;i(/!niiii,n ; but shall never lineally ascend. To explain the more clearly both this and the subsequent... | |
 | William Cruise - Real property - 1818 - 540 pages
...descend. SECTION 1. THE first rule or canon of descent, as laid down by Sir W. Blackstone, is, — " That inheritances shall lineally descend to the issue of...person who last died actually seised, in infinitum -t but shall never lineally ascend." To explain this and the subsequent canons of descent, it will... | |
 | Charles Barton - Conveyancing - 1822 - 690 pages
...founded, and in some cases their agreement with the laws of other nations (1). 1. The first rule is, that inheritances shall lineally descend to the issue of...seised in infinitum ; but shall never lineally ascend. To explain the more clearly both this and the subsequent rules, it must first be observed, that by... | |
 | George Crabb - Industrial arts - 1823 - 704 pages
...follow; namely, 1. Inheritances shall lineally descend to the issue of the person last actually seized in infinitum, but shall never lineally ascend. 2....male issue shall be admitted before the female. 3. Where there are two or more males in equal degree, the eldest only shall inherit; but the females all... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...according to which estates are transmitted from the ancestor to the heir. 1. The first rule is, that inheritances shall lineally descend to the issue of the person who last died actually seized, in infinitum ; but shall never lineally ascend. To explain the more clearly both this and the... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 626 pages
...founded, and in some cases their agreement with the laws of other nations. I. THE first rule is, that inheritances shall lineally descend to the issue of...seised in infinitum ; but shall never lineally ascend. To explain the more clearly both this and the subsequent rules, it must first be observed, that by... | |
 | Alexander Whellier - 1825 - 836 pages
...inheritance, according to which estates are transmitted from the ancestor to the heir. The first rule is, that inheritances shall lineally descend to the issue of...seised, in infinitum; but shall never lineally ascend. To explain the more clearly both this and the subsequent rules, it must be observed, that by law no... | |
 | British - 1825 - 598 pages
...contingent. The law is simply " after her death let the heirs take it.'* So with us it is said "inheritance, shall lineally descend to the issue of the person, who last died, actually seized," but does not therefore render it imperative, that - the property must be transmitted to the... | |
 | Law - 1829 - 418 pages
...this country, we shall compare our laws with Blackstone's Canons of Descent. His first canon is, 'that inheritances shall lineally descend to the issue of the person who last died actually seized in infinitum; but shall never lineally ascend.'* As the first part of this rule holds good in... | |
 | William Hayes - Conveyancing - 1835 - 616 pages
...in his COMMENTARIES on the Laws of ENGLAND, B. ii. c. 14, are as follows. I. The first rule is, that inheritances shall lineally descend to the issue of the person who last died actually seised, in intinitum ; but shall never lineally ascend. II. A second general rule or canon is, that the male issue... | |
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I. The first rule is, that inheritances shall lineally descend to the issue of the person who last died actually seised in infinitum: but shall never lineally ascend. 
