 | Henry James Holthouse - 1999 - 504 páginas
...reversion, to his •ight heirs, or leaves the same undisposed of. Descent or hereditary succession, then, is the title whereby a man on the death of his ancestor....estate by right of representation as his heir at law. And an heir, therefore, is he upon whom the law casts the estate immediately on the death of the ances:or;... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1856 - 912 páginas
...make from the intestate. Neither does the word detcent mean pedigree, blood, lineage : it means title by descent. "Descent, or hereditary succession, is...estate by right of representation, as his heir at law." 2 Black. Com. 201. Jac. Law Diet, word DeKent. Co. Litt. 237. a. The statute of W. 3. is very verbose... | |
 | New South Wales. Supreme Court - 1893 - 1134 páginas
...the law is more briefly stated: — "Descent or hereditary succession is the title whereby a man 0i1 the death of his ancestor acquires his estate by right of representation, as heir at law. An heir therefore is he upon whom the law casts the estate immediately on the death of... | |
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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. 
