A Practical Treatise on the Law of Perpetuity: Or, Remoteness in Limitations of Estates: as Applicable to the Various Modes of Settlement of Property, Real and Personal, and in Its Bearing on the Different Modifications of Ownership in Such Property

William David Lewis

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INTRODUCTION	lxxiii

King v Frost	lxxxii

The right of disposal of property being the creature	1

Uses limited in derogation of previous partial estates	3

CHAPTER I	7

Glance at the origin and progress of the feodal system	8

Extension of this power to tenants in capite and substi	14

CHAPTER II	27

And where preceding bequest to ancestor in words which	402

OF THE RULE AGAINST PERPETUITIES AS IT AFFECTS	408

Remainders may be too remote because particularestates	409

The circumstance of contingent remainders being destruc	416

Remainder expectant on a particularestate for life to per	422

And that though the vesting of each lifeestate be post	423

Doctrine presumes an intention to create a succession	430

Case of Monkhouse v Monkhouse considered as to this	436

Failure of attempts to procure a repeal of the Statute	32

Gladly adopted as a means of removing the grievances	38

CHAPTER IV	44

But tenant for life may be debarred from joining with	47

CHAPTER VI	53

The reasons urged in support of a contrary view	66

Definition of an Executory devise	72

Limitation to the heirs of J S during his life or to A	73

Doctrine of Executory bequests proceeds on assumption	88

Of Executory bequests of chattels personal	94

Formerly ruled that when such chattels were given	100

Their chief resemblance consists in an entire disregard	106

A limitation by deed originally made as a remainder	112

HISTORY AND PROGRESSIVE ESTABLISHMENT OF	140

Case of Stephens v Stephens	146

Observations upon the nature and effect of the decision	152

Rarity of authorities upon remoteness of limitations by	153

The lives forming part of the period of suspension may	161

This analogy unsustainable	167

Rule requires a limitation to be such as will necessarily	170

Consideration of effect of statute 1 Vict c 26 post	175

Estatetail raised by implication under devise on failure	181

Gift to A in fee and if he and B die without issue	185

Idiomatic interpretation different	191

But not in deeds	196

Case of Doe d Cape v Walker	203

Charge of money of less importance in reference to gifts	210

Whether the effect of the construction is to restrain failure	216

Case of Chadock v Cowley	219

Objects of future gift must be in esse at creation of limita	225

But no restrictive construction arises from association	230

Case of Walter v Drew	236

As between prior express and implied restriction of failure	242

But rule will not apply if first failure restricted on ground	243

Accidental that the authorities are confined to instances	249

Nature and operation of such devises	253

Observations on Bankes v Holme and Egerton v Jones	262

Lord Cokes illustrations of this rule	268

Recent cases bearing upon the doctrine	270

Mr Prestons confirmation of the rule	276

Giftover after prior limitation to children for life	283

Prior gift to first and other sons in tailmale	284

SUBDIVISION IV	291

Chief result of new rule to remove objection of remoteness	297

Contingency of a persons death without heirs open to	309

Limitations to bastards and denizens and their heirs	315

And no difference between cases where an estatetail would	320

Breton	322

Word leaving authorizes this construction	326

Expressions and circumstances of restrictive force as	330

Bequest of chattels to survivors of a class of persons	337

Observations	355

Instance of this	361

No exception analogous to that of devise of reversion	367

SUBDIVISION III	373

If this construction rebutted first taker has absolute	378

Question of the application of the referential construction	394

Introductory observations	396

Construction of cyprés not applied to limitations in deeds	440

Observations upon Goodtitle d Cross v Woodhull	448

CHAPTER XVII	455

Same rules applicable to limitations to other classes	461

bequest to persons	470

Limitations of rents to persons from time to time in posses	476

Case of Charity Commissioners v baroness De Clifford	479

Powers the object of which is to create a perpetuity void	485

Appointment to child of child unborn at time of	492

1333	497

When Power confined to persons within prescribed limits	498

Necessary that valid and remote contingencies should	506

Distinction upon this point as to one instance of limita	509

Duffield	514

These rules not departed from because consequence	517

QUENT DIVESTING GIFTS	531

Doctrine obtains notwithstanding ordinary rule in favor	540

Doubt of legality of unrestricted Powers originated	542

Duffoy and Theobalds	545

Authorities upon the subject of unlimited Powers	548

Powers not extended to representatives of donee if living	554

Powers of sale in mortgages not open to any objection	560

Powers declared on limitations in strict settlement though	562

General observations as to unlimited special Powers	569

Case of Bankes v Le Despencer	576

If direct object of executory trust be creation of a perpe	584

A branch of the decision in Mogg v Mogg considered	590

Case of Curtis v Lukin	596

The extent to which the possession is accelerated in	600

Nature of this doctrine and its present weight	602

No rule of Common law rendering unnecessary provi	608

Implied conditions	615

The possibility of reverter remaining in grantor and	621

Case of Bagshaw v Spencer	627

Case of Jones v Say and Seal	630

This doctrine if sustainable an insufficient answer to	636

If expiration of leases properly restricted no objection	642

If trust of accumulation merely engrafted on limitations	643

Case of Ibbetson v Ibbetson	649

Remoteness in a limitation in reference to the objects of it	659

Illustration of doctrine that limitations after estatestail	665

Devises of reversions expectant on estatestail 253	668

Limitations of interests of confined duration	673

The authorities not uniform upon the point	675

Allowed under license from the Crown	688

Advowsons legally recognized as subjects of commercial	702

But general result decidedly unfavorable to charitable	707

Special exemptions from rigor of laws against grants	708

Provisions of 34 35 Hen 8 not allowed to be fraudu	714

They permit at present day the strictest unbarrable entail	718

ADDENDA	725

Extract from the third Report of the Commis	735

Opinions upon the question whether the word	xxix

Cordwainers

Extract from an opinion relative to a cove

Limitations on failure of heirs or heirs of the body	5

Legislative settlements of estates in favor of families	8

Barbut and Tilbury	12

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William David Lewis
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William David Lewis
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Վերնագիր	A Practical Treatise on the Law of Perpetuity: Or, Remoteness in Limitations of Estates: as Applicable to the Various Modes of Settlement of Property, Real and Personal, and in Its Bearing on the Different Modifications of Ownership in Such Property
Հեղինակ	William David Lewis
Հրատարակիչ	Saunders and Benning, 1843
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