 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1807 - 542 pages
...not sufficient 10 carry the fee. Lord Mansfield says, " the rule of law is established and certain, that express words of limitation, or words tantamount, are necessary to pass an estate of inheritance. All my estate, or, all my interest, will do; but, " all my lands lying in such" a place, is not sufficient-... | |
 | Horace Binney, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1810 - 642 pages
..." guish between real and personal property. The rule of law *' however, is established and certain, that express words of " limitation, or words tantamount, are necessary to pass an es** tate of inheritance. ' All my estate' or ' all my interest' will " do: but ' all my lands lying... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1813 - 502 pages
...distinguish between real and personal property [F 2]. The rule of law, however, is established and certain, that express words of limitation, or words tantamount, are necessary to pass an estate of inheritance. " All " my estate" or " all my interest" will do : But " all my " lands lying in such a place" is not... | |
 | William Cruise - Real property - 1818 - 624 pages
...distinguish between real and personal property. The rule of law however is established and certain, that express words of limitation, or words tantamount, are necessary to pass an estate of inheritance. All my estate, or all my interest, will do; but all my lands lying in such a place is not sufficient;... | |
 | Richard Preston - Estates (Law) - 1827 - 584 pages
...distinguish between real and personal property. The rule of law, however, is established and certain,' that express words of limitation, or words tantamount, are necessary to pass an inheritance : l all my estate,' (m) Sec Callings v. Eweslall, 4 Mau. & Selw. 58. or * all my interest,'... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Common law - 1835 - 632 pages
...for life or in fee in the tract of land called Layhill? Per Cur. Buchanan, J. It is an established rule of law, " that express words of limitation, or words tantamount, are necessary in a devise to pass an estate of inheritance." But in the construction of a will, the intention expressed... | |
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I verily believe, that in almost every case where by law a general devise of lands is reduced to an estate for life, the intent of the testator is thwarted; for ordinary people do not distinguish between real and personal property. The rule of law however... 
