An Essay Upon the Learning of Devises: From Their Inception by Writing, to Their Consummation by the Death of the Devisor |
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Popular passages
Page 268 - Where a remainder is limited to take effect upon an event, which, though it certainly must happen some time or other, yet may not happen till after the determination of the particular estate; as if a lease be made to JS for life, and after the death of JD the lands to remain to another in fee...
Page 122 - ... devise, legacy, estate, interest, gift or appointment, shall, so far only as concerns such person attesting the execution of such will or codicil, or any person claiming under him, be utterly null and void; and such person shall be admitted as a witness to the execution...
Page 593 - Curiam, though a covenant or articles do not, at law, revoke a will, yet, if entered into for a valuable consideration, amounting in...
Page 385 - It was called a conditional fee, by reason of the condition expressed or implied in the donation of it, that if the donee died without such particular heirs, the land should revert to the donor.
Page 506 - I give, ratify and confirm, all my estate, right, title and interest, which I now have, and all the term and terms of, years which I now have, or may have, in my power to dispose of, after my death, in whatever I hold by lease from Sir John Freeman, and also the house called the Bell Tavern, to John Billingsley...
Page 357 - And therefore he said if a feoffment be made to the use of A for life, and after to the use of every person who should be his heir, one after another, for the term of the life of every such heir only; in this case, if this limitation should be good, the inheritance would be in nobody; but this limitation is merely void, for the limitation of an use to have a perpetual freehold is not agreeable with the rule of law in estates in possession.
Page 89 - ... and if the jury should be of opinion that it was then in the room, they ought to find for the will generally ; and they ought to presume, from the circumstances proved, that the will was in the room.
Page 219 - ... jointly, severally or particularly, or by all those ways, or any of them, as much as in him of right is or shall be, all his said manors, lands, tenements, rents and hereditaments, or any of them, or any rents, commons or other profits or commodities out of or to be perceived of the same, or out of any parcel thereof, at his own free will and pleasure ; any clause in the said former act notwithstanding.
Page 629 - June be revocable, otherwife than by fome other will or codicil in writing, or other writing declaring the fame, or by burning, cancelling, tearing or obliterating the fame by the teftator himfelf, or in his prefence -and by his directions and...
Page 268 - As if a lease be to A. for life, remainder to B. for life, and if B. die before A., remainder to C. for life, the event of B.