Commentaries on American Law, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1884 - Law |
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Common terms and phrases
alienation ancestor assignment cestui que trust chancery chattel Code Comm common law condition Conn contingent remainder convey conveyance Court of Chancery court of equity covenant created creditor curtesy death debt declared deed default descendants doctrine dower English law entitled entry equity of redemption estate tail estoppel execution executory devise Fearne fee simple feoffee feoffment feudal foreclosure forfeiture freehold grant grantor heirs held husband inheritance intention interest issue Jackson Johns judgment land lease lessee lien limitation Litt Lord Coke Lord Hardwicke Mass mort mortgage mortgagor notice Ohio operation owner Paige particular estate party Penn personal estate possession Preston principle provision purchaser real estate redeem remainderman rents and profits resulting trust rule rule in Shelley's seised seisin sell subsequent Sugden supra take effect tenant term tion valid vested void Wend wife words York Revised Statutes
Popular passages
Page 492 - 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.
Page 500 - And until the governor and judges shall adopt laws as hereinafter mentioned estates in the said territory may be devised or bequeathed by wills in writing signed and sealed by him or her in whom the estate may be, being of full age, and attested by three witnesses, and real estates may be conveyed by lease and release or bargain and sale signed, sealed and delivered by the person being of full age in whom the estate may be and attested by two witnesses...
Page 393 - ... 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.
Page 238 - It is a rule in 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 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 98 - An agreement for the leasing for a longer period than one year, or for the sale of real property, or of an interest therein ; and such agreement, if made by an agent of the party sought to be charged...
Page 492 - In any manner relating thereto, shall hereafter be created, granted, assigned, surrendered or declared, unless by act or operation of law, or by a deed or conveyance in writing, subscribed by the party creating, granting, assigning, surrendering or declaring the same, or by his lawful agent thereunto authorized by writing.
Page 419 - If there be no issue, nor husband, nor wife, nor father, then in equal shares to the brothers and sisters of the intestate, and to the children of any deceased brother or sister, by right of representation...
Page 254 - When a remainder is limited to the heirs, or heirs of the body, of a person to whom a life estate in the same property is given, the persons who, on the termination of the life estate, are the successors or heirs of the body of the owner for life, are entitled to take by virtue of the remainder so limited to them, and not as mere successors of the owner for life.
Page 297 - When, In consequence of a valid limitation of an expectant estate, there Is a suspension of the power of alienation, or of the ownership, during the continuance of which the rents and profits are undisposed of, and no valid direction for their accumulation Is given, such rents and profits shall belong to the persons presumptively entitled to the next eventual estate.