 | Alfred Gandy Reeves - Real property - 1909 - 926 pages
...tersely remodelled in conformity with the prevalent doctrine in both countries, it would declare that, " inheritances shall lineally descend to the issue of the person who last died owning the property ; and, in the absence of such issue, may lineally ascend one degree, and under... | |
 | George Purcell Costigan - Executors and administrators - 1910 - 810 pages
...some cases their agreement with the laws of other nations. "I. The first rule is: That inheritance shall lineally descend to the issue of the person...actually seised in infinitum, but shall never lineally ascend.2 * * * "II. A second general rule or canon is: That the male issue shall be admitted before... | |
 | George Purcell Costigan - Executors and administrators - 1910 - 874 pages
...some cases their agreement with the laws of other nations. "I. The first rule is : That inheritance shall lineally descend to the issue of the person...actually seised in infinitum, but shall never lineally ascend.2 * * * "II. A second general rule or canon is: That the male issue shall be admitted before... | |
 | Robert Ludlow Fowler - Executors and administrators - 1911 - 638 pages
...3). See Fowler's Real Prop. Law respect. See 2 P. & M. chap. VI ; 3 (3d ed.), 49, 72, 84, 148. (I) " Inheritances shall lineally descend to the issue of...person who last died actually seised, in infinitum; but sftiall never lineally ascend." 50 This rule was of purely feudal origin,61 and founded at a time when... | |
 | Roscoe Pound - Common law - 1913 - 662 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. II. A second general rule or canon is, that the male issue shall be admitted before the female. III.... | |
 | Alfred William Bays - Property - 1913 - 256 pages
...accordingly the law must have rules of succession. The early canons of descent were as follows : (1) "Inheritances shall lineally descend to the issue of the person who last died actually seized in infinitum but shall never lineally ascend." (2) "The male issue shall be admitted before... | |
 | William Livesey Burdick - Real property - 1914 - 1024 pages
...number, as enumerated by Blackstone,78 and are as follows: Canon I — Descent from Person Last Seised "Inheritances shall lineally descend to the issue...died actually seised, in infinitum, but shall never lineallv ascend."80 Under this rule, the ancestor must have been actually seised.81 The present English... | |
 | William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich - Law - 1915 - 1392 pages
...which it was supposed that every conceivable case could be determined. The first was that inheritance shall lineally descend to the issue of the person...seised in infinitum, but shall never lineally ascend. The second declared that the male shall be admitted before the female. Daughters, however, notwithstanding... | |
 | John R. Cox - Admission to the bar - 1916 - 614 pages
...either of themselves or of their respective relatives. 115. Give the common law canons of descent. 1. Inheritances shall lineally descend to the issue of the person who" last dies actually seized, but shall never lineally ascend. 2. The male issue shall be admitted before the... | |
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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. 
