 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1851 - 694 σελίδες
...KENT in delivering the opinion of the Court of Errors, takes occasion to remark that when an estate is given to a person generally or indefinitely, with a power of disposition, it carries a fee, and the only exception to the rule is when the testator gives the first taker an estate for life only... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - 1835 - 632 σελίδες
...son Lawrence the ** die**iUl * fide, 4 Kcnts Com. 535, where it it laid down, that if an estate bo given to a person generally or indefinitely, with a power of disposition it carries a fee, nnleii the testator gives to the first taker an estate fur life only, and annexes to it a pov. er of... | |
 | N. Saxton, New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1836 - 766 σελίδες
...generally, with a power of disposition, it carries a fee. The only exception to this rule is, where the testator gives, to the first taker, an estate for life only, by express words, and annexes to it a power of disposal ; in that case the devisee for life will not... | |
 | 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 - 1918 - 854 σελίδες
...Robins, 16 Johns. (NY) 588: " "We may lay It down as an incontrovertible rule that where an estate is given to a person generally or indefinitely, with a power of disposition, it carries a fee. The only exception to the rule is where the testator gives to the first taker an estate for life only,... | |
 | 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 - 1910 - 806 σελίδες
...Robins, 16 Johns. (NY) 588: "We may lay it down as an incontrovertible rule that where an estate is given to a person generally or indefinitely, with a power of disposition, it carries a fee. The only exception to the rule is where the testator gives to the first taker an estate for life only,... | |
 | 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 - 1907 - 832 σελίδες
...588, Chancellor Kent said: " ' We may lay it down as an incontrovertible rule, that where an estate is given to a person generally, or indefinitely, with a power of disposition, it carries a fee ; and the only exception to the rule is, where the testator gives to the first taker an estate for... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court, Hamilton Chamberlain Jones - 1854 - 622 σελίδες
...Rep. 537, says at page 587, " We may lay it down as an incontrovertible rule, that where an estate is given to a person generally, or indefinitely, with a power of disposition, it carries a fee, and the only exception to the rule is where Ihe testator gives to the first taker an estate for life... | |
 | Thomas Jarman - 1859 - 604 σελίδες
...Parker, 5 Metcalf, 134 ; Godfrey v. Humphrey, 18 Pick. 537. See Josselyn v. Hutchinson, 21 Maine, 339. If an estate be given to a person generally, or indefinitely,...gives to the first taker an estate for life only, and annexed to it a power of disposition of the reversion. See 4 Kent, (5th ed.) 535, 536 : Jackson v.... | |
 | Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott - 1864 - 812 σελίδες
...1817, Jackson u. Embler, 14 Johns., 198; and see Jackson v. Wells, 9 Id., 222. 47. Where an estate, is given to a person generally, or indefinitely, with a power of disposition, it carries a fee ; and the only exception to the rule is, where the testator gives to the first taker an estate for... | |
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We may lay it down as an incontrovertible rule that, where an estate is given to a person generally or indefinitely with a power of disposition, it carries a fee, and the only exception to the rule is where the testator gives to the first taker an estate... 
