 THAT a devise be most favourably expounded, to pursue if possible the will of the devisor, who for want of advice or learning may have omitted the legal or proper phrases. And therefore many times the law dispenses with the want of words in devises, that...  A Compendium and Digest of the Laws of Massachusetts - Page 1315by Massachusetts, William Charles White - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Peter Lovelass - Inheritance and succession - 1790 - 302 pages
...of wills, that the fame be mod favourably expounded, to purfue if poflible the will of the teftator, who for want of advice or learning may have omitted the legal and proper phrafes. And therefore many times the law difpenfes with the want of words in devifes, which... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1794 - 700 pages
...difpenfes with the want of words in devifes, that are absolutely remiifite in all other inftruments. Thus a fee may be conveyed without words of inheritance''; and an cftate-tail without words of procrea-i tionr(i3). By a will alfo an cilate may pafs by mere implication,... | |
 | Zephaniah Swift - Law - 1795 - 990 pages
...law. 7. That a devife be moft favorable expounded, to purfue if poflible, the will of the devifor, who for want of advice, or learning, may have omitted the legal and proper phrafes. The law therefore many times difpenfes with the want of words in devifes, that... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1800 - 680 pages
...difpenfes with the want of words in devifes, that arc abfolutely rcquifite in all other inftruments. Thus a fee may be conveyed without words of inheritance < ; and an eflate-tail without words of procreation r (i3). By a will alfo an eft ate may pafs by mere implication,... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 698 pages
...rather attempt to reconcile them P. 7. THAT a devise be most favorably expounded, to pursue if possible the will of the devisor, who for want of advice or...a fee may be conveyed without words of inheritance i ; and an estate-tail without words of procreation' (13). By a will also an estate may pass by mere... | |
 | Horace Binney, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1810 - 642 pages
...by the same writer, in the same place, " that a devise be favourably expounded to pursue if possible the will of the devisor, who for want of advice or learning may have omitted the proper or legal phrases." In Perrin v. Blakt-, Lord Mansfield observes, " that as the " law allows... | |
 | William Sheppard - Conveyancing - 1820 - 1178 pages
...attempt to reconcile them." " 7. That a devise be most favourably expounded, to pursue, if possible, the will of the devisor, who, for want of advice or learning, may have omitted the legal and proper phrases." And therefore, many times the law dispenses with the want of words in devises,... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...clauses the latter shall stand. 7. That a devise be most favourably expounded, to pursue if possible the will of the devisor, who for want of advice or...learning may have omitted the legal or proper phrases. Thus in a will a fee may be conveyed without words of inheritance; and an estate-tail without words... | |
 | Peter Lovelass - Inheritance and succession - 1823 - 470 pages
...wills, that the same be most favourably expounded, to pursue if possible the will of the testator, who for want of advice or learning may have omitted the legal and proper phrases. And therefore many times the law dispenses with the want of words in devises, which... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 626 pages
...attempt to reconcile them p. (4) 7. THAT a devise be most favourably expounded, to pursue if possible the will of the devisor, who for want of advice or...conveyed without words of inheritance '' ; and an estate-tail without words of procreation r. By a will also an estate may pass by mere implication,... | |
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