 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1846 - 624 pages
...his legal heirs at law." This devise comes clearly within the rule in- Shelly's case, (I Co. 104.) "When the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes...in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited either mediately or immediately to his heirs. in fee or in tail: always in such cases the word "heirs... | |
 | George Spence - 1846 - 708 pages
...other respects from this construction, it has been established *- •* from a very early period, that when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes...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... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1847 - 556 pages
...voluminous as this one. In Fearne the rule is stated in the following words : " It is a rule of law, that when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takes...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... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1849 - 916 pages
...was, whiat estate did he take under the deed. The court state the rule in Shelly's case thus, " 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, the terms heirs are words of limitation,... | |
 | Charles Broadbelt Claydon - 1847 - 524 pages
...construction which must be here noticed, viz. that in Shelley's case (t). It is that, whenever a man by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold,...in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited either mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, the word " heirs" is a word of limitation... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1841 - 912 pages
...estate, (Price v. Price, 5 Ala. 580,) settles "that when tiie 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 he.irs are words of limitation... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1848 - 702 pages
...Bill. [2.] Under the rule in Shelley's Case, "that 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... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - 1848 - 786 pages
...Kent's Com., 221. That rule is stated to be "that when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, taketh an estate of free-hold, 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 arc words of limitation... | |
 | James Kent - 1848 - 798 pages
...the Year Books, to be, " that when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance, taketh an estate of *215 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 Campbell Baron Campbell - 1849 - 620 pages
...counsel for the nephew, and succeeded in establishing the celebrated rule, 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 either in fee or in tail, 'heirs' is a word of limitation,... | |
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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'... 
