 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
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1867 - 610 pages
...Elizabcth, and is reported in 1 Coke's K. 94. The rule declared in the case 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, ' his heirs' are words of limitation... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 1090 pages
...(A.-Sax. scylf). On Shipboard, a ' o tadinal timber running around the inner any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited to his heirs, the words the heirs are words of limitation of the estate of tho ancestor, ie they are... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 1090 pages
...(A.-Sax. scylf). On Shipboard, a longitudinal timber running around the inner any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited to his heirs, the words the heirs are words of limitation of the estate of tho ancestor, ie they are... | |
 | Ransom Hebbard Tyler - Children - 1868 - 984 pages
...the authority of the Tear Books, to be " that when the ancestor, 58 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, tJie heirs are words of limitation... | |
 | Law - 1869 - 370 pages
...allnded to. "The rule in Shelley's case;"—"that when the ancestor, hy 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 tail, the word ' heirs ' is a word of limitation... | |
 | John Reeves, William Francis Finlason - Law - 1869 - 842 pages
...effect, they laid down this old rule of law, that where an ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, cither mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, then heirs are words of limitation,... | |
 | Law - 1874 - 436 pages
...Case." Under the head of this case we find the following: " Decided, 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 or the heirs of his body, the word ' heirs ' is a word... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Dictionaries, Law - 1870 - 674 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 heirs is a word of limitation... | |
 | Jasper Yeates, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 636 pages
...defendant relies on the rule in Shelly's case, 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, always in such cases, heirs are words... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1872 - 776 pages
...in that case. 1 Rep. 104, a. " 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 mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, that always in such case ' the heirs ' are... | |
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