 | William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 698 pages
...proprietor. The termination, loom, is of Saxon original ; in which language it signifies a limb or member"; so that an heir-loom is nothing else, but a limb or...notwithstanding it be expressly limited to a man and his heirs, but shall vest in the executor b ( 1 ). But deer in a real authorized park, fishes in a T 1... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...special custom to the heir along with the inheritance, and not to the executor of the last proprietor. They are generally such things as cannot be taken...rule is, that no chattel interest whatsoever shall go the heir, notwithstanding it be expressly limited to a man and his heirs, but shall vest in the executor.... | |
 | Peter Lovelass - Inheritance and succession - 1823 - 470 pages
...along with the inheritance, and not to the executor or administrator of the last proprietor; and these are generally such things as cannot be taken away without damaging or dismembering the freehold b . If a man be seised of a house, and possessed of divers heir-looms, that by custom have gone with... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 626 pages
...The termination loom is of Saxon original ; in which language it signifies a limb orj member • ; so that an heir-loom is nothing else but a limb or...inheritance. They are generally such things as cannot be tajien away without damaging or dismembering the freehold : otherwise the general rule is, that no... | |
 | Andrew Amos, Joseph Ferard - Fixtures (Law) - 1830 - 360 pages
...and always treats them as personalty ; though (with some degree of inconsistency perhaps) he says, they are generally, such things as cannot be taken...away without damaging or dismembering the freehold *And in one part of the Commentaries (b) he says expressly, LI*"* J " An heir-loom, or implement of... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 852 pages
...proprietor. The termination, loom, is of Saxon original; in which language it signifies a limb or member (a); so that an heir-loom is nothing else but a limb or...notwithstanding it be expressly limited to a man and his heirs, but shall vest in the executor (ft) (7). But deer in a real authorised park, fishes in a pond,... | |
 | Sir Edward Coke, John Henry Thomas - Land tenure - 1836 - 772 pages
...proprietor. The termination, loom, is of Saxon original ; in which it signifies a limb or member, Spelm. Gloss. 277 ; so that an heir-loom is nothing else, but a limb or member of the inheritance. 2 Bl. Com. 427. They are generally such things as cannot be taken away without damaging or dismembering... | |
 | 1838 - 524 pages
...looms. The termination 'loom ' is of Saxon origin, in which language it signifies a limb or member; so that an heir-loom is nothing else but a limb or member of the inheritance. (2 Bl. Com.) Chattels are sometimes directed by testators to go to the heir, together with the inheritance,... | |
 | Sir Samuel Toller - Executors and administrators - 1838 - 620 pages
...signifies a limb, or member; consequently heir-looms denote limbs or members of the inheritance. They are such things as cannot be taken away without damaging, or dismembering the freehold. Whatever, therefore, is strongly affixed to the inheritance, and cannot be severed from it without... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1839 - 524 pages
...heir-looms. The termination 'loom ' is of Saxon origin, in which language it signifies a limb or member; so that an heir-loom is nothing else but a limb or member of the inheritance. (2 Bl. Com.) Chattels are sometimes directed by testators to go to tlie heir, together with the inheritance,... | |
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... as, contrary to the nature of chattels, shall go by special custom to the heir along with the inheritance, and not to the executor of the last proprietor. The termination, loom, is of Saxon original; in which language it signifies a limb or member;... 
