Commentaries on American Law, Volumen4W. Kent, 1848 |
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... owner , and transmissible to his heirs . No es- tate is deemed a fee , unless it may continue for An estate , whose duration is circumscribed by the period of one or more lives in being , is merely a freehold , and not a fee . Though ...
... owner , and transmissible to his heirs . No es- tate is deemed a fee , unless it may continue for An estate , whose duration is circumscribed by the period of one or more lives in being , is merely a freehold , and not a fee . Though ...
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... owner of a determinable fee conveys in fee , the determinable quality of the estate follows the transfer ; and this is founded upon the sound maxim of the com- mon law , that nemo potest plus juris in alium transferre quam ipse habet ...
... owner of a determinable fee conveys in fee , the determinable quality of the estate follows the transfer ; and this is founded upon the sound maxim of the com- mon law , that nemo potest plus juris in alium transferre quam ipse habet ...
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... owner of the feud of his ancient power of alienation , upon his having issue , or performing the condition , and the donor's possibility or right of reverter was turned into a rever- sion . The feud was to remain unto the issue ...
... owner of the feud of his ancient power of alienation , upon his having issue , or performing the condition , and the donor's possibility or right of reverter was turned into a rever- sion . The feud was to remain unto the issue ...
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... owner can alienate or devise them , as well as an absolute estate in fee . By the act of 1787 , every freeholder was authorized to give or sell at his pleasure any lands whereof he was seised in fee - simple ; and by the act of 1813 ...
... owner can alienate or devise them , as well as an absolute estate in fee . By the act of 1787 , every freeholder was authorized to give or sell at his pleasure any lands whereof he was seised in fee - simple ; and by the act of 1813 ...
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... owner a variety of valuable rights and privileges . He became a suitor of the courts , and the judge in the capacity of a juror ; he was entitled to vote for members of parliament , and to defend his title to the land ; as owner of the ...
... owner a variety of valuable rights and privileges . He became a suitor of the courts , and the judge in the capacity of a juror ; he was entitled to vote for members of parliament , and to defend his title to the land ; as owner of the ...
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alienation ancestor assignment chancery chattels Code common law condition contingent remainder convey conveyance court of chancery court of equity covenant created creditor curtesy death debt declared decree deed default descendants doctrine dower English law entitled entry equity of redemption estate tail estoppel execution executory devise Fearne feoffees feoffment feudal foreclosure forfeiture freehold grant grantor heirs held husband ibid intention interest issue Jackson Johns jointure judgment land lease lessee lien limitation Litt Lord Coke Lord Eldon Lord Hardwicke Massachusetts mortgage mortgagor N. H. Rep New-Jersey New-York Revised Statutes North Carolina notice Ohio Rep operation Paige particular estate party personal estate possession Preston principle provision purchaser real estate rule rule in Shelley's seised seisin statute law subsequent Sugden supra take effect tate tenant Term Rep tion trust Vesey vested void widow wife words writ
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Página 449 - Every contract for the leasing for a longer period than one year, .or for the sale of any lands or any interest in lands, shall be void, unless the contract, or some note or memorandum thereof, expressing the consideration, be in writing, and be subscribed by the party by whom the lease or sale is to be made.
Página 213 - 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' are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase.
Página 271 - The absolute power of alienation shall not be suspended by any limitation or condition whatever, for a longer period than during the continuance of not more than two lives in being at the creation of the estate, except in the single case mentioned in the next section.
Página 203 - The present capacity of taking effect in possession, if the possession were to become vacant, and not the certainty that the possession will become vacant before the estate limited in remainder determines, universally distinguishes a vested remainder from one that is contingent.
Página 514 - ... 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 shall be necessary.
Página 375 - ... part of the personal estate ; and this law relative to descents and dower, shall remain in full force, until altered by the legislature of the district.
Página 2 - All lands within this State are declared to be allodial, so that, subject only to the liability to escheat, the entire and absolute property is vested in the owners according to the nature of their respective estates.
Página 212 - Every disposition of real property, whether by deed or by devise, shall be made directly to the person in whom the right to the possession and profits is intended to be vested, and not to...
Página 536 - We may lay it down as an incontrovertible rule that, where an estate is given to a person generally or indefinitely with a power of disposition...