 | Francis Bacon - 1806 - 308 páginas
...by the appellation of the rule in Shelley's case, and which was in that case thus defined — ' 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... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1807 - 698 páginas
...purchase, I may observe, that the much-talkcd-of rule in Shelly's case, 1 Co. 104. is this, viz. " 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... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, William Waller Hening, William Munford - 1808 - 662 páginas
...us. Christian, in his notes on 2d Book of B. Com. pa. 20, lays down the rule in these words, " When the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes " an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or convey" ance an estate is limited mediately or immediately to " his heirs in fee... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - 1813 - 502 páginas
...applies where the first and subsequent limitations are in the same instrument. The words are : " When the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, " takes an estate of freehold, and, in the same gif't or con" veyance, an estate is limited, either mediately or ira" mediately, to his... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sylvester Douglas Baron Glenbervie - 1813 - 1010 páginas
...applies where the 6rst and subsequent limitations are in the same instrument. The words are : " When the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, " takes an estate of freehold, and, in the same gift or con" veyance, an estate is limited, either mediately or im" mediately, to his heirs... | |
 | Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, John Henry Thomas - 1818 - 752 páginas
...which inconveniences, was the origin of (he rule of law, laid down in Shelley's case, viz. that " 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,... | |
 | William Cruise - 1818 - 596 páginas
...ancestor. 3. To remedy this, it appears to have been very early established, as a rule of law, that " 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... | |
 | Charles Barton - 1822 - 690 páginas
...per formam danis, takes by descent. Thus, -by the rule in Shelley's case, so often mentioned, 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,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore - 1823 - 726 páginas
...issue" in a will, is equivalent to " heirs." The rule is laid down in Shelley's case (6), that " 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... | |
 | William Hayes - 1824 - 436 páginas
...from, subsequent words would be void ; the defendant's counsel answered, that it is a RULE OF 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,... | |
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It is a rule of 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'... 
