 It is a rule of law, 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'...  Questions and Answers on Real Property ... - Page 49by Frederick Stansbury Tyler - 1909 - 57 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1847 - 556 pages
...the following words : " It is a rule of law, 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, the heirs... | |
 | Charles Broadbelt Claydon - Landlord and tenant - 1847 - 524 pages
...noticed, viz. that in Shelley's case (t). It is that, whenever a man 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, the word " heirs" is a word of limitation... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1848 - 702 pages
...death, to her grand children, the complainants in the Bill. [2.] Under the rule in Shelley's Case, "that when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, taketh...the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs in fee, or in tail, the heirs are words of limitation... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1848 - 786 pages
...authoritative rule in England and America. See 4th Kent's Com., 221. That rule is stated to be "that when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, taketh...the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs in fee or in tail, the heirs arc words of limitation... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1848 - 798 pages
...Shdley's case," the rule was stated, on the authority of several cases in the Year Books, to be, " that when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance, taketh an estate of *215 freehold, and in the same *gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately,... | |
 | 1849 - 734 pages
...remainder over to EF Now by the rule in Shelley's case, " wherever a man, by any gift or conveyance, tHkes 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, the word heirs is a word of limitation... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Chief justices - 1849 - 620 pages
...for the nephew, and succeeded in establishing the celebrated rule, that " Where the ancestor takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs either in fee or in tail, 'heirs' is a word of limitation,... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1850 - 736 pages
...title. The decision in Shelly's case established the rule that when one by a 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 in such cases " heirs " is a word... | |
 | Commerce - 1850 - 712 pages
...title. The decision in Shelly's case established the rule that when one by a 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 in such cases " heirs " is a word... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Law - 1851 - 570 pages
...Lord Coke's reports in the following form, — that whenever a man, 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, the word htirs is a word of limitation... | |
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