What people are saying - Write a reviewWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Related booksCommon terms and phrasesact of parliament alienation ancestor ancient assigns Beav Black cestui common law contingent remainder convey conveyance Court of Chancery covenant creditors curtesy debts decease deed descent devise doctrine dower E. C. L. R. vol entitled equity estate in fee estate of freehold estate tail execution executors executory interest Fearne fee simple fee tail feoffee feoffment feoffor freehold gavelkind gift given grant grantor heirs held husband incorporeal hereditaments inheritance intention issue landlord lands lauds lease lessee limitation Litt Lord Coke manor messuage mortgage mortgagor owner P. F. Smith parties payment Pennsylvania personal property premises purchaser real estate real property release rent charge rent service rule Sect seised seisin settlement socage Stat statute Statute of Frauds Sugd take effect tenant in tail tenements tenure term trust vested Vict void warranty wife words Popular passagesPage 166 - 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 140 - June all declarations or creations of trusts or confidences of any lands, tenements or hereditaments, shall be manifested and proved by some writing signed by the party who is by law enabled to declare such trust, or by his last will in writing, or else they shall be utterly void and of none effect. Page 216 - Coke (vo1. 1, 1040,) 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 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. Page 178 - And therefore on a feoffment to A and his heirs, to the use of B and his heirs... Page 245 - Before we conclude the doctrine of remainders and reversions, it may be proper to observe, that f whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one and the same person, without any intermediate estate/ the less is immediately annihilated;! or, in the law phrase, is said to be 'merged, that is, sunk or drowned, in the greater. Page 259 - And be it further enacted, that no appointment made by will, in exercise of any power, shall be valid, unless the same be executed in manner hereinbefore required; and every will executed in manner hereinbefore required shall, so far as respects the execution and attestation thereof, be a valid execution of a power of appointment by will, notwithstanding it shall have been expressly required that a will made in exercise of such power should be executed with some additional or other form of execution... Page 166 - Kent, or the custom of any borough, or any other particular custom, shall be in writing, and signed by the party so devising the same, or by some other person in his presence and by his express directions, and shall be attested and subscribed in the presence of the said devisor by three or four credible witnesses, or else they shall be utterly void and of none effect. Page 179 - ... shall be given to any Person for Life, but the Purposes of the Trust may continue beyond the Life of such Person, such Devise shall be construed to vest in such Trustee the Fee Simple, or other the whole legal Estate which the Testator had Power to dispose of by Will in such Real Estate, and not an Estate determinable when the Purposes of the Trust shall be satisfied . XXXII. Page 166 - That no Will shall be valid unless it shall be in Writing, and executed in manner hereinafter 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... Page 265 - Court is for the time being authorised to be invested, and the interest and dividends of such investments shall be paid to the person who would have been entitled to the rents and profits of the land if the money had been invested in the purchase of land. References to this bookFrom Google ScholarRestoring Real PropertyLouisa Dubery References from web pagesJSTOR: Principles of the Law of Real Property 法史网——英国法上的“权利动产”及其财产概念的特性 Bibliographic information |