 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 626 páginas
...operation of law ; and purchase, where the title is vested in him by his own act or agreement *. ( 1 ) DESCENT, or hereditary succession, is the title whereby...estate by right of representation, as his heir at law. An heir, therefore, is he upon whom the law casts the estate immediately on the death of the ancestor... | |
 | Michael Nolan - 1825 - 776 páginas
...acquiring property are usually divided into two kinds. 1. By descent, or hereditary succession, which is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor,...estate by right of representation as his heir at law. (6) 2. Purchase, when taken in its largest and most extensive sense, is thus defined by Littleton (7)... | |
 | Sir Edward Coke, John Henry Thomas - 1827 - 884 páginas
...oflaw ; the latter, where the title is vested by the person's own act and agreement. Post, 1 it a, b. Descent, or hereditary succession, is the title whereby...on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, as his heir at law An heir, therefore, is he apon whom the law casts the estate immediately on the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 826 páginas
...as if he were leaping down from some high place. DESCENT, or hereditary succession, in law, is lie title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor,...acquires his estate by right of representation, as lii» heir at law. An heir, therefore, is he upon whom the law casts the estate irnme'hately on the... | |
 | Charles Putt - 1830 - 496 páginas
...abandoned, should belong to the nation,! or > as m Great Britain, to the sovereign. CHAPTER IV. Of Descent. DESCENT, or hereditary succession, is the...estate by right of representation, as his heir at law.J "And this," saith my Lord Coke, " is the noblest and worthiest means whereby lands * Black. Com.... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1836 - 852 páginas
...acquires . t is where Descent, or hereditary succession, is the title whereby a his estate as heir- man on the death of his ancestor acquires his estate by right verts by escheat, is requisite to perfect his title, and the actual possession of the land cannot be... | |
 | Sir Edward Coke, John Henry Thomas - 1836 - 796 páginas
...is Bested b the person's own act and agreement. Posi,lS-a, b. L)esceiiU.or hereditkry succession; i the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires its est.itr, -,is his heir i law. An heir, therefore, IB he upon whom the law casts the estate immediately... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1838 - 910 páginas
...operation of law ; and purchase, where the title is vested in him by his own act or agreement (a) (2), (3). Descent, or hereditary succession, is the title whereby...estate by right of representation, as his heir at law. An heir therefore is he upon whom the law casts the estate (e) Co Litt. 18. (2) Purchase in law is... | |
 | William Blackstone, John Bethune Bayly - 1840 - 764 páginas
...smgle operation of law ; and purchase, where the title is vested in him by his own act or agreement Descent. Descent or hereditary succession is the title...estate by right of representation as his heir at law. (a) (a) By 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 106, it is enacted, that the word " land" in the act shall extend to manors,... | |
 | 1841 - 1040 páginas
...acquisition of estates in things real are reducible to two general heads— descent and purchase. ' Descent or hereditary succession is the title whereby a man on the death of bis ancestor acquires his estate by right of representation as his heir at law' (Blackstone); and an... | |
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An heir, therefore, is he upon whom the law casts the estate immediately on the death of the ancestor: and an estate, so descending to the heir, is in law called the inheritance. 
