 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'...  The Law Student's Helper - Página 891903Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1875 - 462 páginas
...Shelley's case ") is expressed in these words : "When the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, taketh 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, ' the heirs ' are words of limitation... | |
 | John Indermaur - 1877 - 188 páginas
...Parks Act. SHELLEY'S CASE. (Ltwl. Gas. Ganv. 507.) (1 Ga. 93 6.) Decided:—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 or the heirs of his body, the word " heirs " is a word... | |
 | John Barbee Minor - 1877 - 1150 páginas
...in Virginia, toiicliing the rule; WC' I1. The precise Terms of the Rule in Shelley's Case. Wherever the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takes an estate of freehold in lands or tenements, and in the same gift or conveyance, an estate is afterwards limited by way of... | |
 | Gordon Campbell - 1879 - 152 páginas
...acquires the fee simple by purchase. The term is merged in the fee simple.] Bnle in Shelley's Case. When the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes...mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, the words ' the heirs ' are words of limitation of the estate of the purchaser. [Example. — Grant... | |
 | Edward Henslowe Bedford - 1879 - 308 páginas
...of the particular estate. What do you know of the rule in Shelley's case ? Give an example. 'Where the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate...in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited cither mediatety or immediatety to his heirs in fee or in tail, the word heirs are words of limitation... | |
 | William Blackstone, Alexander Leith, James Frederick Smith - 1880 - 650 páginas
...is under the well-known rule in Shelley's case (a), which rule is thus expressed, viz., that where the ancestor by any gift, or conveyance takes an estate...in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited either mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, in such cases the " heirs " are words... | |
 | Ransom Hebbard Tyler - 1882 - 1000 páginas
...land, provided her issue might inherit the estate. The rule in Shelley 's case was understood to be, that when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance,...in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited either immediately or mediately to his heirs in fee or tail, always in such cases " the heirs " are... | |
 | 1883 - 984 páginas
...life in the premises devised to him. (a) (at The rule laid down in Shellei/'s Caxe, 1 Rep. 104. was that " when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance...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... | |
 | Albert H. Putney - 1908 - 376 páginas
...obviate which inconveniences, was the origin of the rule of law, laid down in Shelley's case, viz., that 'when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance,...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... | |
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