The Law of Real Property: Chiefly in Relation to Conveyancing |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
9 Vict alienation ancestor arise assurance base fee Coke's common law common recovery conditional fee Cont contingent remainders conveyance copyholds Court covenant created custom determinable fee dower enactment entail equity escheat estate of freehold estate of inheritance estate pur autre estate tail executed executory interests executory limitation existence Fearne fee simple absolute fee tail feoffee feoffment Fines and Recoveries gavelkind grant habendum heirs male hereditaments Ibid immediate freehold issue in tail joint tenants L. J. Ch lease legal estate Litt livery Lord Coke manor ment merger operation particular estate parties possession practice precedent estate Prest pur autre vie purchaser qualified fee simple question Quia Emptores referred remainderman respect reversion rule against perpetuities sect seems seised seisin in deed settlement settlor socage special tail specified statute De Donis subsequent take effect tenant in tail tenements tenure term tion trustees validity vested estate villein void wife words
Popular passages
Page 288 - That if no Disposition by Will shall be made of any Estate pur autre vie of a Freehold Nature, the same shall be chargeable in the Hands of the Heir, if it shall come to him by reason of special Occupancy, as Assets by Descent, as in the Case of Freehold Land in...
Page 141 - One thousand eight hundred and forty-five, a contingent, an executory, and a future interest, and a possibility coupled with an interest, in any tenements or hereditaments of any tenure, whether the object of the gift or limitation of such interest or possibility be or be not ascertained ; also, a right of entry, whether immediate or future, and whether vested or contingent, into or upon any tenements or hereditaments in England, of any tenure, may be disposed of by deed...
Page 305 - October, 1845, all c°orporeal tenements and hereditaments shall, as regards the conveyance of the immediate freehold thereof, be deemed to lie in grant as well as in livery...
Page 128 - 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 'the heirs' are words of limitation of the estate and not words of purchase.
Page 238 - ... as the case requires, without the words heirs male of the body, or heirs female of the body.
Page 229 - ... the will of the giver according to the form in the deed of gift manifestly expressed shall be from henceforth observed, so that they to whom the land was given under such condition shall have no power to aliene the land so given, but that it shall remain unto the issue of them to whom it was given after their death, or shall revert unto the giver or his heirs if issue fail...
Page 230 - And it is to wit that this statute shall hold place touching alienation of land contrary to the form of gift hereafter to be made, and shall not extend to gifts made before. And if a fine be levied hereafter upon such lands it shall be void in the law, neither shall the heirs or such as the reversion belongeth unto though they be of full age, within England, and out of prison, need to make their claim l.
Page 143 - ... term of life, with an executory limitation over on default or failure of all or any of his issue, whether within or at any specified period or time or not, that executory limitation shall be or become void and incapable of taking effect, if, and as soon as there is living any issue who has attained the age of twenty-one years, of the class on default or failure whereof the limitation over was to take effect.
Page 227 - Portugal had appealed, to the House of Lords, from the decision of the Court of Appeal in Bankruptcy.
Page 54 - The present capacity of taking effect in possession, if the possession were to become vacant, and not the certainty that the possession will become vacant before the estate limited in remainder determines, universally distinguishes a rested remainder from one that is contingent.