 Judges, from the earliest times, were always inclined to decide that estates devised were vested ; and it has long been an established rule, for the guidance of the Courts of Westminster in construing devises, that all estates are to be holden to be vested,...  Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeal [1876-1900]. - Page 134by Ontario. Court of Appeal, James Stewart Tupper, Richard Scougall Cassels - 1884Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - 1830 - 588 pages
...been an established rule tor the guidance, of the Courts of Westminster, in construing devises, that all estates are to be holden to be vested., except...opposition to the terms of the will. If there be the least doubt, advan1820. tage is to be taken of the circumstances occasioning; the doubt; and what seems to... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Richard Bligh - 1831 - 478 pages
...been an established rule for the guidance of the Courts of Westminster in construing devises, that all estates are to be holden to be vested, except...opposition to the terms of the will. If there be the least doubt, advantage is to be taken of the circumstance occasioning that doubt ; and what seems to make... | |
 | William David Lewis - 1843 - 878 pages
...guidance of the Courts ^tingof of Westminster, in construing devises, that all estates are to limit*"on"be holden to be vested, except estates, in the devise...opposition to the terms of the will. If there be the least doubt, advantage is to be taken of the circumstances occasioning the doubt ; and what seems to make... | |
 | Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - 1886 - 666 pages
...long been an established rule for the guidance of courts at Westminster, in construing devises, that all estates are to be holden to be vested, except...deciding in direct opposition to the terms of the will." See also Sooth v. Booth, 4 Ves., 399 ; Farmer v. Francis, 2 Bing., 151 ; Kevern v. Williams, 5 Sim.,... | |
 | Owen Davies Tudor - 1856 - 942 pages
...been an established rule, for the guidance of the Courts of Westminster in construing devises, that all estates are to be holden to be vested, except...opposition to the terms of the will. If there be the least doubt, advantage is to be taken of the circumstances occasioning the doubt ; and what seems to make... | |
 | 1882 - 634 pages
...has long been an established rule for the guidance of the Court, that all estates are to be holden vested, except estates in the devise of which a condition...deciding in direct opposition to the terms of the will. To accomplish this, words of seeming condition are, if possible, held to have only the effect of postponing... | |
 | 1878 - 642 pages
...down in Hawkins on Wills, p. 230, is that all estates are to be holden to be vested, except those in which a condition precedent to the vesting is so clearly expressed, that the Court cannot treat them as vested without deciding in direct opposition to the terms of the will. In... | |
 | 1889 - 1166 pages
...remainders, by holding that all estates in remainder are to be treated as vested, except in a devise, in which a condition precedent to the vesting is so clearly expressed that the court cannot treat it as vested, without doing so in plain contradiction to the language of the will.... | |
 | 1914 - 1164 pages
...been an established rule for the guidance of the courts of Westminster, In construing devises, that all estates are to be holden to be vested, except...that the courts cannot treat them as vested without 'locidtng In direct opposition to the terms of the will. If there be the least doubt, advantage le... | |
 | Joshua Williams - 1886 - 510 pages
...been an established rule, for the guidance of the courts of Westminster in construing devises, that all estates are to be holden to be vested, except...devise of which a condition precedent to the vesting is BO clearly expressed that the courts cannot treat them as vested without deciding in direct opposition... | |
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