 | Walter Thomas Dunmore - 1916 - 348 pages
...(2d Ed.) § 135. without the interposition of another estate, of the same legal or equitable quality, to his heirs, or the heirs of his body, as a class of persons to take in succession, from generation to generation, the limitation to the heirs entitles... | |
 | Percy George Osborn - 1927 - 374 pages
...93 b). Where the ancestor takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs or the heirs of his body, the word " heirs " is a word of limitation and not of purchase ; so that the ancestor takes the whole... | |
 | 1900 - 1166 pages
...dogmas of the common law that if one makes a limitation to another for life, with a remainder over, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs or the heirs of his body, the heirs do not take remainders at all, but the word 'heirs' Is regarded as defining or limiting the... | |
 | 1894 - 1200 pages
...In this case. The rule In Shelley's Case is this: "Where a. freehold is limited to one for life, and by the same instrument the inheritance Is limited, either mediately or immediately, to heirs of his body, the first taker takes the whole estate either in fee simple or fee tail; and the... | |
 | 1886 - 1040 pages
...legal estate by operation of the rule in Shelley's Cose. That rule, briefly stated, is this: Where an estate for life is given to the ancestor, and afterwards,...by the same instrument, the inheritance is limited, cither mediately or immediately, to his heirs, or heirs of his body, as a class, to take in succession... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1900 - 706 pages
...dogmas of the common law, that if one makes a limitation to another for life, with a remainder over, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs or the heirs of his body, the heirs do not take remainders at all, but the word 'heirs' is regarded as defining or limiting the... | |
 | Mississippi. Supreme Court - 1898 - 1162 pages
...was that where an ancestor takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs or the heirs of his body, the word heirs is a word of limitation, and not of purchase, so that the ancestor takes the whole estate... | |
 | Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth - 1917 - 1006 pages
...dogmas of the common law that if one makes a limitation to another for life, with a remainder over, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs or the heirs of his body, the heirs do not take remainders at all, but the word 'heirs' is regarded as defining or limiting the... | |
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Decided:—That where the ancestor takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs or the heirs of his body... 
