 | John Jane Smith Wharton - Law - 1848 - 726 pages
...inherit ; but the females »11 together. (4) That the lineal descendants, in inßnitum, of any person deceased, shall represent their ancestor ; that is, shall stand in the same place as ihe person himself would have done had he been living. (5) That on failure of lineal descendants, or... | |
 | William Hughes - Conveyancing - 1849 - 600 pages
...or canon of descents, is, that ranoiTof tne lineal descendants in infinitum of any perciesccnta. son deceased shall represent their ancestor, that is,...grandchild, or great-grandchild, either male or female, succeeds before the younger son in infinitum. And these representatives shall take neither more nor... | |
 | Joseph Henry Dart - Real property - 1851 - 1234 pages
...estate as females. The fourth canon is, " that the lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased, shall represent their ancestor; that is,...person himself would have done, had he been living." In this country, the lineal descendants, except as already stated, are admitted to an equal portion... | |
 | Edward Burtenshaw Sugden - Vendors and purchasers - 1851 - 778 pages
...any person deceased shall innnitum of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor ; that is, shall represent their ancestor : that is, shall stand in the same place as the person stand in the same place as the person himself would have done had he been himself would have done had... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1852 - 616 pages
...preferred to the collateral. It is a rule of descent that the lineal descendants in infinitum of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor, that is,...as the person himself would have done had he been living.2 Hence it is, that the son or grandchild, whether son or daughter, of the eldest son succeeds... | |
 | Owen Davies Tudor - Conveyancing - 1856 - 942 pages
...inherit, but the females all together. Rule 4. That the lineal descendants in infinitum of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor ; that is,...person himself would have done had he been living. Rule 5. That on failure of lineal descendants or issue of the person last seised, the inheritance shall... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court, Hamilton Chamberlain Jones - Equity - 1856 - 568 pages
...altogether." " 4. The lineal descendants in injinitum of any person deceased shall represent their ancestors ; that is, shall stand in .the same place as the person himself would have done had lie been living." " 5. On failure of lineal descendants or issue of the person last seized, the inheritance... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
...lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased, shall represent their ancestor : that ¡.ч, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have dune had he been living 21C On failure of lineal descendants, or issue, of the person last seised,... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - Law - 1863 - 812 pages
...descendants in infinitum of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor; that is, shall stand in (he same place as the person himself would have done had he been living. Rule 5. That, on failure of lineal descendants or issue of the person last seised, the inheritance... | |
 | Thomas Spence - Admission to the bar - 1864 - 456 pages
...eldest inherits, but the females all together. 4. That the lineal descendants in infinitum of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor ; that is,...person himself would have done had he been living. The three preceding rules also prevailed in the old law of descents. 5. That on failure of lineal descendants... | |
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The lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor; that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done, had he been living. 
