 | 1850 - 718 էջ
...Shelly's case established the rule that when one by a gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited...mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, that in such cases " heirs " is a word of limitation, and not a word of purchase ; that is, that the... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - 1850 - 736 էջ
...Shelly's case established the rule that when one by a gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited...mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, that in such cases " heirs " is a word of limitation, and not a word of puichasn ; that is, that the... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - 1851 - 570 էջ
...the following form, — that whenever a man, by any gift or conveyance, takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited,...immediately, to his heirs in fee or in tail, the word htirs is a word of limitation and not of purchase. 1 Co. 104 a, Shelley's case. In other words, it... | |
 | George Bowyer - 1851 - 218 էջ
...104. " It is a rule of 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...mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, that always in such cases the heirs are words of limitation of the estate and not words of purchase."... | |
 | Asa Kinne - 1852 - 736 էջ
...in Shelley's case 1 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,...immediately, to his heirs, in fee or in tail, the heirs are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase. — 1 Coke's Rep., 104. Preston... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1854 - 650 էջ
...day as a rule of law, that 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 immediately or mediately to his heirs, in fee or in .tail, that always in such cases the word " heirs... | |
 | Sir Edward Coke, Francis Hargrave - 1853 - 792 էջ
...though it is a rule that, where the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift, or conveyance, an estate is...immediately, to his heirs in fee, or in tail, " the heirs," in such cases, are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase ; yet this... | |
 | Benjamin Lynde Oliver - 1853 - 654 էջ
...the rule in Shelley's case, when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance, an estate is limited...mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, always in such case, (the heirs) are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase ;... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1853 - 672 էջ
...devise. That rule is, that 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 immediately or mediately, to his heire in fee or in tail, that the words heirs, &c., are words of limitation,... | |
 | Owen Davies Tudor - 1856 - 942 էջ
...Co. 93 b.] RULE IN SHELLEY'S CASE.] — 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, or the heirs of his body, the word " heirs" is a word of limitation and not of purchase ; so that the... | |
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It is a rule in law when the ancestor by any gift cr 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'... 
