 | 1064 pages
...person, and by the same gift or conveyance is limited to his heirs, whether mediately or immediately, the word " heirs" is a word of limitation and not of purchase (I then gave two instances). 7. Privity of estate is that interest which parties under a lease would... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1921 - 688 pages
...law, where a grantor in a~""N deed conveys a life estate with remainder over, either medi- / ately or immediately, to his heirs or the heirs of his body, / the heirs do not take a remainder at all but the word I "heirs" is regarded as denning or limiting the... | |
 | John Willard - 1861 - 718 pages
...in the same gift or conveyance there is a limitation, either mediate or immediate, to his heirs, or heirs of his body, the word heirs is a word of limitation of the estate, and not of purchase. The consequence of this rule is, that the first taker takes the... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1863 - 812 pages
...or conveyance an estate is limited either mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, the word heirs is a word of limitation, and not of purchase (/). In other words, it is to be understood as expressing the quantity of estate which the party is... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1866 - 664 pages
...is limited to a person, and the same instrument contains a limitation, either mediate or immediate, to his heirs, or the heirs of his body, the word ' heirs ' is a word of limitation ; that is, the ancestor takes the whole estate comprised in this term. Thus, if the limitation be to... | |
 | 1874 - 436 pages
...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 ' is a word of limitation, and not of purchase ; so that the ancestor takes the whole estate comprised in the term ; that is to say, in the first... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - 1870 - 674 pages
...or conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs in fee or in tail, the word heirs is a word of limitation and not of purchase. 1 Co. 104 a, Shelley'1 s case. In other •words, it is to be understood as expressing the quantity... | |
 | Josiah William Smith - 1870 - 738 pages
...deed or will, a remainder of the same quality, as legal or equitable, is afterwards limited, whether mediately or immediately, to his heirs or the heirs of his body, by that description and in that character, or to his heir or the heir of his body, in the singular... | |
 | Jasper Yeates, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - 1871 - 636 pages
...ancestor takes an estate of freehold, and in the same conveyance an estate is limited to his heirs, the word " heirs " is a word of limitation and not of purchase. I am therefore satisfied, that Michael Baiighman, junior, took an estate tail under the deed from his... | |
 | John Indermaur - 1873 - 104 pages
...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 " is a word of limitation, and not of purchase ; so that the ancestor takes the whole estate comprised in the term: that is to say, in the first case,... | |
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... either mediately or immediately, to his heirs or the heirs of his body, the word 
