 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1906 - 712 σελίδες
...held that the daughter took the title to the land in fee, the rule being, that whenever the ancestor takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either immediately or mediately, to his heirs, either in fee or in tail, the word "heirs" is one of limitation... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1863 - 812 σελίδες
...case(i). This rule is propounded in Lord Coke's Reports in the following form—that wherever a man by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold,...mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, the word heirs is a word of limitation, and not of purchase (/). In other words, it is to be understood... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1864 - 482 σελίδες
...the ancestor. (5) To prevent these inconveniences, the rule in Shelly's case was adopted — " When the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takes an...immediately, to his heirs, in fee or in tail, in such cases, the words his heirs are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase." Another... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1864 - 484 σελίδες
...the ancestor. (5) To prevent these inconveniences, the rule in Shelfy's case was adopted — " When the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takes an...immediately, to his heirs, in fee or in tail, in such cases, the words Aw heirs are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase." Another... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1919 - 660 σελίδες
...Shelley's case,* the rule is thus laid down : " that when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, taketh an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance...mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, the heirs are words of limitation of the estate and not words of purchase." Mr. Preston uses the following... | |
 | James Kent - 1866 - 786 σελίδες
...Books, to be, " that when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, taketh an estate of freehold, * 215 and in the same * gift or conveyance an estate is...mediately or immediately, to his heirs, in fee or in tail, the heirs are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase."1 Mr Preston, in his elaborate... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1866 - 664 σελίδες
...1 Co. 93 b, that where an estate of freehold is limited to a devisee or grantee, and by the devise or conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs, in fee simple or in tail, " his heirs " are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase.... | |
 | 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 - 1867 - 610 σελίδες
...rule declared in the case is stated to be, "that when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, taketh an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance...mediately or immediately to his heirs, in fee or in tail, ' his heirs' are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase." The word heirs, or... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - 1867 - 1090 σελίδες
...insects, and sea-weed. Shelf (A.-Sax. scylf). On Shipboard, a longitudinal timber running around the inner any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold,...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 - 1867 - 1090 σελίδες
...insects, and sea-wccd. Sbetf (A.-Sax. scylf). On Shipboard, a ' o tadinal timber running around the inner any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold,...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... | |
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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'... 
