What people are saying - Write a reviewWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Common terms and phrasesadmission admitted Adol aforesaid afterwards ancient demesne appointment assignee bankrupt codicil commissioner consent contingent coparceners copy of court copyhold estate copyhold lands copyhold property court rolls Courts of Equity coverture creditors Cress custom customary freehold customary heir customary or copyhold death deed demesne descent devise disposed disposition dower election enfranchisement entitled entry equitable estate escheat estate tail estates pur autre executed executor Fearne C. R. feme covert forfeiture free-bench further enacted Gilb grant held hereditaments heriot husband and wife infant insolvent issue joint tenants leasehold estates limitation lord lunatic manor marriage mortgage passed payable personal estate protector pur autre vie purchase real estate recent statute remainder render respect resulting trust revoked Russ section enacts seised seisin special occupancy steward surrender surrenderee tenant in tail tenant right tenements tenure testator's therein thereof Tofield tomary vested Watk words Wroot Popular passagesPage 8 - ... will; but the will, with such alteration as part thereof, shall be deemed to be duly executed, if the signature of the testator, and the subscription of the witnesses be made in the margin or on some part of the will... Page 7 - That if any person shall attest the execution of any will to whom or to whose wife or husband any beneficial devise, legacy, estate, interest, gift, or appointment, of or affecting any real or personal estate... Page 11 - ... shall not lapse, but shall take effect as if the death of such person had happened immediately after the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will. Page 135 - That it shall be lawful for every person to devise, bequeath, or dispose of, by his will executed in manner hereinafter required, all real estate and all personal estate which he shall be entitled to, either at law or in equity, at the time of his death... Page 97 - 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 133 - King Charles the Second, intituled An act for taking away the court of wards and liveries and tenures, in capite and by knights service, and to any other testamentary disposition; and the words "real estate... Page 134 - person" shall extend to a partnership, or body politic, corporate, or collegiate, as well as to an individual ; and every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be applied to several persons or things... Page 133 - will" shall extend to a testament, and to a codicil, and to an appointment by will or by writing in the nature of a will in exercise of a power... Page 83 - ... if this act had not been made, or notwithstanding that the same, in consequence of there being a custom that a will or a surrender to the use of a will should continue in force for a limited time only, or any other special custom, could not have been disposed of by will... Page 134 - ... to estates pur autre vie, whether there shall or shall not be any special occupant thereof, and whether the same shall be freehold, customary freehold, tenant right, customary or copyhold, or of any other tenure, and whether the same shall be a corporeal or an incorporeal hereditament... Bibliographic information |