| William Blackstone - 1877 - 640 páginas
...the operation of law ; and purchase, where the title is vested in him by his own act or agreement. Descent, or hereditary succession, is the title whereby...ancestor acquires his estate by right of representation. An heir, therefore, is he upon whom the law casts the estate on the death of the ancestor ; and an... | |
| Gordon Campbell - 1879 - 152 páginas
...Alienation or Voluntary Transfer. I. TITLES BY ACT OF LAW. 1. Title by Descent CHAPTER XIV.— (Of Title by descent.) Descent or hereditary succession is the...estate by right of representation as his heir at law. An heir is the person upon whom the law casts the estate. The descending estate is called the inheritance.... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - 1879 - 762 páginas
...operation of law, and second by purchase, where the title is vested in him by his own act or agreement. Descent or hereditary succession, is the title whereby...acquires his estate by right of representation as his heir-at-law. Title by purchase, as contra-distinguished from acquisition by right of blood, includes... | |
| 1910 - 1156 páginas
...§ 206.*] 2. DESCENT AND DISTRIIUTTION (§ 1*) — NATURE OF "DESCENT" — "HEREDITARY SUCCESSION." "Descent" or "hereditary succession" is the title...a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his ancestor's estate by right of representation as his heir at law. [Ed. Note.— For other cases, see... | |
| James Kent - 1884 - 728 páginas
...every code of civil jurisprudence. Descent, or hereditary possession, is the title whereby a person, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate by right of representation as his heir, (ó) The English law of descent is governed by a number of rules, or canons of inheritance, which have... | |
| Delaware. Court of Chancery - 1884 - 840 páginas
...Descent, also is not an absolute, but merely a relative term "Descent " is the title whereby a person, on the death of his ancestor, " acquires his estate by right of representation as his heir." 4 Kent. Com. 374. If there be nothing to descend — no subject-matter of descent there can be no descent,... | |
| 1917 - 1212 páginas
...NATURE OF RlQHT— "DESCENT" — "HEREDITARY SUCCESSION" — "Нвт" — "INHERITANCE." At common law, "descent," or "hereditary succession," is the title whereby a man on the denth of his ancestor acquires his estate by riuht of representation, as his heir at law. An "heir"... | |
| William Blackstone - 1885 - 626 páginas
...by operation of law ; or by purchase, where the title is vested in him by his own act or agreement. Descent, or hereditary succession, is the title whereby...ancestor acquires his estate by right of representation. An heir, therefore, is he upon whom the law casts the estate on the death of the ancestor ; and an... | |
| William Blackstone - 1890 - 850 páginas
...the title is vested in him by his own act or agreement."* f Descent, or hereditary succession, isthe title whereby a man on the death of his ancestor acquires...estate by right of representation, as his heir at law. J An heir therefore is ho upon whom the law casts the estate immediately on the death of the ancestor... | |
| John C. Devereux - 1891 - 432 páginas
...agreement. 2. What is title by descent ?— 201. Title by descent, or hereditary succession, is where a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his...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... | |
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