An Analysis of the English Law of Real Property: Chiefly from Blackstone's Commentary |
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abolished act of Law act of Party Advowson ÆNEID ALDRED alienation ancestor Blackstone's Bonamy Price Books cloth Common Law contingent remainder conveyance coparcenary coparceners copyhold corporeal Crown 8vo custom deed descend devise dower Edward ELEMENTARY QUESTIONS emblements Escheat estate in fee estate in remainder estate of inheritance estate tail Estates upon condition Examination fee simple fee tail feoffment feudal seisin forfeiture Freehold Estates gavelkind grant grantor Greek heirs held Henry VIII Hertford College HIGH STREET hold Honour Incorporeal hereditaments interest issue JAMES THORNTON joint tenancy knight service lands or tenements Law of Contracts Law regarding lease limited lord manor marriage ments Mortmain original owner particular estate possession purchaser QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES Real Property Law recovery rent reversion Roman Law rules seised seisin severalty Specimen Stat student take effect tenancy in common tenant in tail term Things Real tithes Translation unity vested Vict void whereby words
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Page 26 - Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Page 44 - It is a rule in law, 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.
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Page 26 - I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love and found him a native of the rocks.
Page 82 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner herein-after mentioned ; (that is to say,) it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction...
Page 82 - And be it further enacted, that every will shall be construed, with reference to the real estate and personal estate comprised in it, to speak and take effect as if it had been executed immediately before the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
Page 32 - Tenant by the curtesy of England, is where a man marries a woman seised of an estate of inheritance, that is, of lands and tenements in fee-simple or fee-tail ; and has by her issue, born alive, which was capable of inheriting her estate. In this case, he shall, on the death of his wife, hold the lands for his life...
Page 74 - The wife was defrauded of her thirds ; the husband of being tenant by courtesy ; the lord of his wardship, relief, heriot, and escheat ; the creditor of his extent for debt ; the poor tenant of his lease...
Page 12 - ... can supply him. The far greater part of them he must derive from the labour of other people, and he must be rich or poor according to the...
Page 26 - French reserve mixed with the struggling multitude, and endeavoured to sustain the fight ; but the effort only increased the irremediable confusion ; the mighty mass gave way, and like a loosened cliff went headlong down the steep ; the rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood, and eighteen hundred unwounded men, the remnant of six thousand unconquerable British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill.