| William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 698 pages
...rule, or canon of descents, is this; that the lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person [217] deceased shall represent their ancestor; that is,...person himself would have done, had he been living. THUS the child, grandchild, or great-grandchild (either male or female) of the eldest son succeeds... | |
| Hugh Henry Brackenridge - Law - 1814 - 608 pages
...as females inherit equal parts. 4th. "The lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person [eceased shall represent their ancestor; that is, shall stand...person himself would have done, had he been living." [ Our act adopts this canon, but in the application of the ^ role, there is no preference of the eldest... | |
| Thomas Potts - Law - 1815 - 836 pages
...injinitum, of any perron deceased, shall represent their ancestor ; that is, shall stand in the lame place as the person himself would have done had he been living thus the child, grand-child, or great grand child (either male or female), of the eldest son, succeeds... | |
| Richard Preston - Abstracts of title - 1818 - 486 pages
...male shall inherit, but the females shall inherit altogether. 4thly, Lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased, shall represent, their ancestor...person himself would have done had he been living. 5thly, On failure of lineal descendants or issue of the person last seised, the inheritance shall descend... | |
| William Cruise - Real property - 1818 - 540 pages
...or rule of descent is, 4th Canon. . " That the lineal descendants in infinitum of any pr'fsentation. person deceased shall represent their ancestor ; that...person himself would have done, had he been living." "Hence it is (says Lord Hale) that the son or Hist. c. ll. grandchild, whether son or daughter, of... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 394 pages
...the eldest only shall inherit ; but the females altogether. 3. The lineal descendants, in infuitnm, of any person deceased, shall represent their ancestor...person himself would have done had he been living: thus the child, grand-child, or great grandchild, (either male or female) of the eldest son succeeds... | |
| Charles Watkins - Inheritance and succession - 1819 - 362 pages
...the eldest only shall inherit, but the females all together. 4. The lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor...person himself would have done had he been living (b). 5. On out their title ^to each other, the common father need not be named : but the descent between... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 328 pages
...IV. The lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased, shall represent their ancestor, or stand in the same place as the person himself would have done, had he been living. V. On failure of lineal descendants, or issue, of the person last seised, the inheritance shall descend... | |
| Charles Barton - Conveyancing - 1822 - 690 pages
...this ; that the Right of rcprolineal descendants, in injinitum, of any person deceased 1eruat,0"shall represent their ancestor ; that is, shall stand in...person himself would have done, had he been living. Thus the child, grandchild, or great-grandchild (either male or female) of the eldest son succeeds... | |
| Peter Lovelass - Inheritance and succession - 1823 - 470 pages
...inherit the estate as co-parceners f . The fourth rule is, that the lineal descendants, in infiniium, of any person deceased, shall represent their ancestor;...person himself would have done had he been living. Thus the child, grandchild., or great-grandchild, (either male or female) of the eldest son, succeeds... | |
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