 | Francis Bacon - 1806 - 308 σελίδες
...the rule in Shelley's case, and which was in that case thus defined — ' When the '• ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of '• freehold,...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)... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1807 - 698 σελίδες
...observe, that the much-talkcd-of rule in Shelly's case, 1 Co. 104. is this, viz. " when the ancestor, by any gift " or conveyance, takes an estate of freehold,...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 helrt... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, William Waller Hening, William Munford - 1808 - 662 σελίδες
...in his notes on 2d Book of B. Com. pa. 20, lays down the rule in these words, " When the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes " an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or convey" ance an estate is limited mediately or immediately to " his heirs in fee or in tail, always... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - 1813 - 502 σελίδες
...first and subsequent limitations are in the same instrument. The words are : " When the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, " takes an estate of freehold, and, in the same gif't or con" veyance, an estate is limited, either mediately or ira" mediately, to his heirs in fee, or in... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sylvester Douglas Baron Glenbervie - 1813 - 1010 σελίδες
...6rst and subsequent limitations are in the same instrument. The words are : " When the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, " takes an estate of freehold, and, in the same gift or con" veyance, an estate is limited, either mediately or im" mediately, to his heirs in fee, or in tail,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Charles Durnford, Sir Edward Hyde East - 1817 - 898 σελίδες
...the statute of uses ? The rule in Shelley's case (a) has always been adhered to, that where a man by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold,...in 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Charles Durnford, Sir Edward Hyde East - 1817 - 708 σελίδες
...in Shelley'* case (a), and recognized in a variety of subsequent cases, is 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; the word " heirs" is a word... | |
 | William Cruise - 1818 - 596 σελίδες
...this, it appears to have been very early established, as a rule of law, that " when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold,...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)... | |
 | Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, John Henry Thomas - 1818 - 752 σελίδες
...inconveniences, was the origin of (he rule of law, laid down in Shelley's case, viz. that " when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takes an estate of freehold,...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... | |
 | Charles Barton - 1822 - 690 σελίδες
...danis, takes by descent. Thus, -by the rule in Shelley's case, so often mentioned, when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takes an estate of freehold,...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... | |
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It is a rule in 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'... 
