A Treatise on Wills, Volume 2S. Sweet, 1844 - Wills |
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... DEVISES IN TAIL . Words " in Default of such Issue , " & c . , raise Cross- Remainders , when . Alleged Exceptions ; -where the Devise is to more than two ; -where there is an express Cross - Limitation ; -where the Devise in Tail is ...
... DEVISES IN TAIL . Words " in Default of such Issue , " & c . , raise Cross- Remainders , when . Alleged Exceptions ; -where the Devise is to more than two ; -where there is an express Cross - Limitation ; -where the Devise in Tail is ...
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... Devise to heir passes fee- simple . Heirs of the body as pur- chasers . devise will apply to the person or persons answering this description at his death , and who , under the recent enact- ment regulating the law of inheritance ( a ) ...
... Devise to heir passes fee- simple . Heirs of the body as pur- chasers . devise will apply to the person or persons answering this description at his death , and who , under the recent enact- ment regulating the law of inheritance ( a ) ...
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... devise to the heir general , in the singular , confers ( as we have seen ) an estate in fee - simple , in like manner with a devise to the heirs in the plural , on the ground that the word " heir , " as nomen collectivum , includes the ...
... devise to the heir general , in the singular , confers ( as we have seen ) an estate in fee - simple , in like manner with a devise to the heirs in the plural , on the ground that the word " heir , " as nomen collectivum , includes the ...
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... Devise to male C.'s attaining his majority , ( and who was the eldest son in esse at that period , the first being dead , ) took an estate tail by force of the word " issue , " and not a fee - simple by the effect of the word " estates ...
... Devise to male C.'s attaining his majority , ( and who was the eldest son in esse at that period , the first being dead , ) took an estate tail by force of the word " issue , " and not a fee - simple by the effect of the word " estates ...
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... devise would fail . " Right heirs male , " how construed . " Right heirs of my name and posterity . " Thus , in Ashenhurst's case ( k ) , where the devise was to the right heirs male of the testator for ever ; it was held , both in ...
... devise would fail . " Right heirs male , " how construed . " Right heirs of my name and posterity . " Thus , in Ashenhurst's case ( k ) , where the devise was to the right heirs male of the testator for ever ; it was held , both in ...
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age of twenty-one annuity ante applied appoint authority bequeathed bequest CHAP charged construction construed contingent remainders Court cross-remainders daugh daughter death debts decease default devisee died without issue directed doctrine dren Durn dying eldest entitled estate tail event executors express failure of issue favour fee-simple freehold gift grandchildren heirs male held implication intention interest issue living issue male lands lawfully begotten leaving issue legacies legatees lifetime Lord Eldon Lord Hardwicke Lord Langdale Lord Thurlow Lordship marriage moiety objects observed personal estate personalty principle prior devise purchase Pyot question real and personal real estate referred residue respective rule rule in Shelley's rule of construction seems shew sons survivor tail male take an estate tenant in tail tenants in common term testator devised testator's tion took an estate trust ulterior vested vise wife word issue words heirs words of limitation
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Page 763 - Manner a Bequest of the Personal Estate of the Testator, or any Bequest of Personal Property described in a general Manner shall be construed to include any Personal Estate, or any Personal Estate to which such Description shall extend (as the Case may be), which he may have Power to appoint in any Manner he may think proper, and shall operate as an Execution of such Power, unless a contrary Intention shall appear by the Will.
Page 758 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner herein-after mentioned ; (that is to say,) it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction; and such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, and such witnesses shall attest and shall subscribe the will in the presence of the testator, but no form of attestation...
Page 761 - That no will or codicil, or any part thereof, shall be revoked otherwise than as aforesaid, or by another will or codicil executed in manner hereinbefore required, or by some writing declaring an intention to revoke the same, and executed in the manner in which a will is hereinbefore required to be executed...
Page 764 - ... shall not lapse, but shall take effect as if the death of such person had happened immediately after the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
Page 762 - And be it further enacted, that no conveyance or other act made or done subsequently to the execution of a will of or relating to any real or personal estate therein comprised, except an act by which such will shall be revoked as aforesaid, shall prevent the operation of the will with respect to such estate or interest in such real or personal estate as the testator shall have power to dispose of by will at the time of his death.
Page 760 - And be it further enacted, that every will made by a man or woman shall be revoked by his or her marriage (except a will made in exercise of a power of appointment, when the real or personal estate thereby appointed would not in default of such appointment pass to his or her heir...
Page 763 - ... indefinite Failure of his Issue, unless a contrary Intention shall appear by the Will, by reason of such Person having a prior Estate Tail, or of a preceding Gift, being, without any Implication arising from such Words, a Limitation of an Estate Tail to such Person or Issue or otherwise : Provided, that this Act shall not extend to Cases where such Words as aforesaid import if no Issue described in a preceding Gift shall be born, or if there shall be no Issue who shall live to attain the Age...
Page 763 - die without leaving issue," or "have no issue," or any other words which may import either a want or failure of issue of any person in his lifetime or at the time of his death, or an indefinite failure of his issue...
Page 413 - ... or any other words which may import either a want or failure of issue of any person in his lifetime or at the time of his death, or an indefinite failure of his issue, shall be construed to mean a want or failure of issue in the lifetime or at the time of the death of such person, and not an indefinite failure of his issue, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will...
Page 754 - person" shall extend to a partnership, or body politic, corporate, or collegiate, as well as to an individual ; and every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be applied to several persons or things...