 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
 | George Bowyer - Ecclesiastical law - 1851 - 218 pages
...Shelly's case, 1 Co. Rep. 104. " 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... | |
 | Asa Kinne - Courts - 1852 - 736 pages
...435. Chomley's case, Co., 51. Fearne Cunt. Rem.. 375. 7. What is the rule in Shelley's case 1 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... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 650 pages
...established at an early day as 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 immediately or mediately to his heirs, in fee or in .tail, that always in such cases the word... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 672 pages
...not applicable to this devise. That rule 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 immediately or mediately, to his heire in fee or in tail, that the words heirs, &c., are words... | |
 | Sir Edward Coke, Francis Hargrave - Land tenure - 1853 - 792 pages
...to his right heirs. For though it is a rule that, where 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, " the heirs," in such cases, are... | |
 | Benjamin Lynde Oliver - Conveyancing - 1853 - 654 pages
...be remedied by it. By the rule in Shelley's case, 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, always in such case, (the heirs) are... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1854 - 728 pages
...of several cases in the Year Books, to be, " that when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, *215 taketh 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 heirs are words of limitation... | |
 | Owen Davies Tudor - Conveyancing - 1856 - 942 pages
...is termed the rule in Shelley's Case, viz. that rvhen 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, in such cases " the heirs' are words... | |
 | Law - 1857 - 386 pages
...of the counsel in argument in these words — " Where the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate ia limited either mediately or immediately to his heirs, in fee or in tail, in such cases ' the heirs... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1858 - 778 pages
...subject, it is happily done to our hand, by the acnte investigations of Mr. Fearne himself. " that when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, taketh an estate of freehold, and in the same * gift or * 215 conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs, in fee or in... | |
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