 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 712 pages
...held that the daughter took the title to the land in fee, the rule being, that whenever the ancestor takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either immediately or mediately, to his heirs, either in fee or in tail, the word "heirs" is one of limitation... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - Law - 1863 - 812 pages
...case(i). This rule is propounded in Lord Coke's Reports in the following form—that wherever a man by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold,...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... | |
 | New York (State) - Law - 1863 - 1026 pages
...rule, commonly described by lawyers as the rule ' in Shelly's case.' The terms of this rule are, ' That when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance, takes...the same gift or conveyance, an estate is limited mediately or immediately to his heirs, or the heirs of his body, that the words heirs, &c. are always... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 482 pages
...lifetime of the ancestor. (5) To prevent these inconveniences, the rule in Shelly's case was adopted — " When the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takes...mediately or immediately, to his heirs, in fee or in tail, in such cases, the words his heirs are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase."... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 484 pages
...lifetime of the ancestor. (5) To prevent these inconveniences, the rule in Shelfy's case was adopted — " When the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, takes...mediately or immediately, to his heirs, in fee or in tail, in such cases, the words Aw heirs are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase."... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 660 pages
...Shelley's case,* the rule is thus laid down : " that when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, taketh an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance...mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, the heirs are words of limitation of the estate and not words of purchase." Mr. Preston uses the following... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1866 - 786 pages
...Books, to be, " that when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, taketh an estate of freehold, * 215 and in the same * gift or conveyance an estate is...mediately or immediately, to his heirs, in fee or in tail, the heirs are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase."1 Mr Preston, in his elaborate... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 664 pages
...1 Co. 93 b, that where an estate of freehold is limited to a devisee or grantee, and by the devise or conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs, in fee simple or in tail, " his heirs " are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase.... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1867 - 610 pages
...rule declared in the case is stated to be, "that when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, taketh an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance...mediately or immediately to his heirs, in fee or in tail, ' his heirs' are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of purchase." The word heirs, or... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 1090 pages
...insects, and sea-wccd. Sbetf (A.-Sax. scylf). On Shipboard, a ' o tadinal timber running around the inner any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold,...in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited to his heirs, the words the heirs are words of limitation of the estate of tho ancestor, ie they are... | |
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Coke (vo1. 1, 1040,) is, that 'when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs in fee or in tail, that always in such cases... 
