A Digest of the Laws of England Respecting Real Property, Volume 6A. Strahan, 1818 |
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... Lands liable to Debts and Legacies , and enable Persons to sell Lands . 1. What Words create a Condition 4. Where construed a Limitation Page 447 · 448 7. What Words make Lands liable to Debts and Legacies 449 18. Copyholds liable as ...
... Lands liable to Debts and Legacies , and enable Persons to sell Lands . 1. What Words create a Condition 4. Where construed a Limitation Page 447 · 448 7. What Words make Lands liable to Debts and Legacies 449 18. Copyholds liable as ...
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... lands existed in the time of the Saxons * ; but , upon Wright's the establishment of the Normans , it was taken away ; because it was inconsistent with the principles of the feudal law and although many of the restraints on Lib . 7. c ...
... lands existed in the time of the Saxons * ; but , upon Wright's the establishment of the Normans , it was taken away ; because it was inconsistent with the principles of the feudal law and although many of the restraints on Lib . 7. c ...
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... land to the use , effec- tually took away the power of devising . Wills . 6. The inconveniences which attended this re- Statutes of straint on the disposition of lands by devise , induced the legislature , in a few years after , to give ...
... land to the use , effec- tually took away the power of devising . Wills . 6. The inconveniences which attended this re- Statutes of straint on the disposition of lands by devise , induced the legislature , in a few years after , to give ...
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... lands , tenements , rents , or other heredita- ments , in possession , reversion , remainder , or of rents or services incident to any reversion or re- mainder , shall have full and free liberty , power , and authority to give , dispose ...
... lands , tenements , rents , or other heredita- ments , in possession , reversion , remainder , or of rents or services incident to any reversion or re- mainder , shall have full and free liberty , power , and authority to give , dispose ...
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... lands . Devise under 10. The idea of a devise of land was evidently Nature of a taken from the testament of the Roman law , which these Sta- was at all times allowed in England , with respect to tutes . personal property . But the power ...
... lands . Devise under 10. The idea of a devise of land was evidently Nature of a taken from the testament of the Roman law , which these Sta- was at all times allowed in England , with respect to tutes . personal property . But the power ...
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afterwards alteration attested by three cancelled CHAP charge codicil conveyance copyhold copyhold estates Coryton Court of Chancery court of equity Court of King's custom daughter death decease declared decreed deed descent devise of lands devised lands devisor died dispose disposition duly attested effect equity estate in fee estate tail executed executors fee simple feme covert former freehold gavelkind give heir at law heirs male held hereditaments House of Lords infra intention interest issue King's Bench lands devised lease Lord Ch Lord Hardwicke Lord Mansfield manor marriage ment mortgage operate opinion Parl pass person devised personal estate plaintiff power of devising purchase question real estate recovery remainder reversion revocation revoked rule seised seised in fee sheet statute of frauds subscribed subsequent sufficient surrender tenant tenements term testament testator's testatrix thereof three witnesses tion trustees void wife words
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Page 60 - Kent, or the custom of any borough, or any other particular custom, shall be in writing, and signed by the party so devising the same, or by some other person in his presence, and by his express direction; and shall be attested and subscribed in the presence of the said devisor, by three or four credible witnesses, or else they shall be utterly void, and of none effect...
Page 24 - ... an intention, that such a thing shall take place ; without reference to the circumstance, whether the testator had any knowledge of the extent of his power, or not. Nothing can be more dangerous than to speculate upon what he would have done, if he had known one thing or another. It is enough for me to say, he had such intention; and I will not speculate upon what he would have intended in different cases put There is an error in Cull v.
Page 356 - Bart.,) their heirs and assigns, to the uses after mentioned ; (that is to say,) to the use of the said testator's son, the said plaintiff, James Houghton Langston, for and during the term of his natural life...
Page 266 - Jacob to have and to hold to him and his heirs for ever. Item I give to my Son...
Page 361 - To THE USE of the said (settler) for and during the term of his natural life, without impeachment of waste, and from and after his decease TO THE USE of the said...
Page 392 - I give and bequeath to my dearly beloved wife Sarah Barry for and during the term of her natural life...
Page 572 - I go upon is, that the plaintiff was en ventre sa mere at the time of her brother's death, and consequently a person in rerum natura: so that by the rules of the common and civil law she was, to all intents and purposes, a child, as much as if born in the father's lifetime.
Page 523 - ... who should be living at the time of the decease of the survivor of them the...
Page 93 - ... aforesaid, or unless the same be altered by some other will or codicil in writing, or other writing of the devisor, signed in the presence of three or four witnesses, declaring the same, any former law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 365 - ... the elder of such sons, and the heirs male of his body issuing, being always to be preferred, and to take before, the younger of such sons, and the heirs male of his and their body and...