 | Joseph Warren - Executors and administrators - 1917 - 906 pages
...her father's side." The court held, that A. could convey an unqualified fee. CANONS OF DESCENT.1 1. INHERITANCES shall lineally descend to the issue of...actually seised in infinitum, but shall never lineally ascend.2 2. The male issue shall be admitted before the female. 3. Where there are two or more males,... | |
 | Elliott Judd Northrup - Real property - 1919 - 478 pages
...heir of the body of the donee in tail. See Will. Real Prop., 20th ed., 108; 679-680. FIRST CANON : Inheritances shall lineally descend to the issue of...seised in infinitum ; but shall never lineally ascend. Inheritance is derived from the person who last died seised in deed. If A died so seised, leaving B... | |
 | California, James Manford Kerr - Criminal law - 1923 - 680 pages
...law. A.— (1) Inheritance shall lineally descend to the issue of the person last actually seized, in infinitum, but shall never lineally ascend. (2)...issue shall be admitted before the female. (3) When two or more males are in equal degree, the eldest only shall inherit, but the females all together.... | |
 | John Bernard Spilker - Real estate business - 1923 - 394 pages
...DESCENT Real property descends, according to common law, as follows : 1. To the issue of the deceased, but shall never lineally ascend. 2. The male issue shall be admitted before the female. 3. The oldest of the males of same degree shall inherit, but the females inherit all together. 4. Lineal... | |
 | Olin W. Smith - Bar examinations - 1928 - 388 pages
...common law. Ans. (1) Inheritance shall lineally descent to the issue of the person last actually seized, in infinitum, but shall never lineally ascend. (2)...issue shall be admitted before the female. (3) When two or more males are in equal degree, the eldest only shall inherit, but the females all together.... | |
 | New York (State). Courts, Francis Blaine Delehanty (Reporter), Austin B. Griffin (Reporter), Robert George Scherer (Reporter), Edward Jordan Dimock (Reporter), Joseph Albert Lawson (Reporter), Charles Cook Lester (Reporter), William Van Rensselaer Erving (Reporter), Louis J. Rezzemini (Reporter) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 742 pages
...William Blackstone in the second book of his Commentaries, are as follows: " ' I. The first rule is, that inheritances shall lineally descend to the issue of the person who last died actually seized, in finitum ', but shall never lineally ascend. " ' II. A second general rule or canon is, that... | |
 | Sir Thomas Littleton - Land tenure - 2014 - 784 pages
...descent, viz. — 1 . Hereditaments shall lineally descend to the issue of such person in inßnitum ; but shall never lineally ascend. 2. The 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 altogether.... | |
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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. 
