The General Laws of Estates: Or, Freeholder's Companion: Containing the Laws, Statutes, and Customs Relating to Freehold and Other Estates ... in which is Compriz'd the Whole Law of Tenures of Lands ... With a Full and Compleat Abstract of the New Act of Parliament Concerning Distresses for Rent, Replevins and Ejectments, &c. and Several Other Late Popular Statutes. Likewise Some Very Useful Precedents of Deeds and Writings, Applicable to this Work |
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Page 57
... Devise of the Intereft which he had in that Eftate farther than for Life : But the Mafter of the Rolls decreed , that the Devifee had an Estate in Fee , because the Lands paffed by the first Words , and the Interest therein by the ...
... Devise of the Intereft which he had in that Eftate farther than for Life : But the Mafter of the Rolls decreed , that the Devifee had an Estate in Fee , because the Lands paffed by the first Words , and the Interest therein by the ...
Page 58
... Devise to a Man for ever , and to a Man upon Trufts , which may continue for ever . Adjudg'd in B. R. Pafch . I Geo . 2 . Of Difcents of Fee - limple Estates to Sons , and Partition among Daughters . D ISCENT by the Common Law , is de ...
... Devise to a Man for ever , and to a Man upon Trufts , which may continue for ever . Adjudg'd in B. R. Pafch . I Geo . 2 . Of Difcents of Fee - limple Estates to Sons , and Partition among Daughters . D ISCENT by the Common Law , is de ...
Page 71
... Devise to an Heir gives the fame Eftate which would defcend , the Devife is unnecellary , and nothing operates by it , therefore it is void ; but here is not a Devise to an Heir , for both the Coparceners make the Heir , and the one is ...
... Devise to an Heir gives the fame Eftate which would defcend , the Devife is unnecellary , and nothing operates by it , therefore it is void ; but here is not a Devise to an Heir , for both the Coparceners make the Heir , and the one is ...
Page 85
... Devise over by these Words for Want of fuch Heirs , is void in Point of Limitation ; alfo the Word Heirs here can import nothing more than Iffue , & c . 1 Salk . 233. · And where a Feoffment was made to the Use of the Feoffor for Life ...
... Devise over by these Words for Want of fuch Heirs , is void in Point of Limitation ; alfo the Word Heirs here can import nothing more than Iffue , & c . 1 Salk . 233. · And where a Feoffment was made to the Use of the Feoffor for Life ...
Page 88
... Devise was immediately to B. and his Children , and they fhall be taken as Words of Limitation , viz . as Chil- dren of his Body . 6 Rep . 17 . A Perfon devifes his Eftate to his eldest Son J. S. and the Heirs Male of his Body , for the ...
... Devise was immediately to B. and his Children , and they fhall be taken as Words of Limitation , viz . as Chil- dren of his Body . 6 Rep . 17 . A Perfon devifes his Eftate to his eldest Son J. S. and the Heirs Male of his Body , for the ...
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Page 337 - Post (in his Actual Possession now being by Virtue of a Bargain and Sale to him thereof made by the said George Welsh for one whole year by Indenture bearing date the day next Before the day of the date of these Presents and by force of the Statute for Transferring uses into Possession...
Page 372 - ... all other persons claiming or to claim the premises, or any part thereof by, from or under him, them or any of them. 4. Mortgagor to keep buildings insured. A covenant " that the mortgagor will keep the buildings on the said premises insured against loss by fire, for the benefit of the mortgagee.
Page 341 - James, their executors, adminiftrators, and afligns, from the day next before the day of the date of thefe prefents, for and during, and unto the full end and term of...
Page 362 - Brook and his heirs and against all and every other person or persons whatsoever lawfully claiming or to claim by, from or under him, them or any of them Shall and Will Warrant and forever Defend by these presents.
Page 38 - Blades in 1716 devifed certain lands to his wife for her life, and, after her death, to his nine .children ; the wife enters, but does not regifter the will.
Page 46 - ... make it. For, if land be given to a man and his wife, and the heirs of their two...
Page 372 - And lajlly it is covenanted, granted, concluded and agreed upon, by and between the faid Parties to thefe Prefents, and the true Meaning hereof alfo is, and it is hereby...
Page 181 - Except nevertheless all leases not exceeding the term of three years from the making thereof, whereupon the rent reserved to the landlord, during such term, shall amount unto two third parts at the least of the full improved value of the thing demised.
Page 348 - Day next before the Day of the Date of thefe Prefents, for and during, and unto the full End and Term of, one whole Year from thence next enfuing and fully to be complete and ended : "JJttiwlig Raldcndnm.
Page 355 - ... all and singular the said tract of land and premises ; with their, and every of their appurtenances, and every part...