 | William Blackstone - Law - 1865 - 642 pages
...may confer it on which of them he pleases. V. " The lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased " shall represent their ancestor : that is,...succeeds before the younger son, and so in infinitum. And these representatives shall take neither more nor less, but just so much as their principals would... | |
 | Joshua Williams - Real property - 1866 - 480 pages
...This, however, is a fallacy; the rule is, " 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."(m) Now, in what place would the deceased daughter have stood had she been living? Would she... | |
 | Law - 786 pages
...the rule is that the lineal descendants of any person deceased represent their ancestor — that is, stand in the same place as the person himself would have done had he been living, it follows that the daughter of the deceased son is preferred to the widow's own daughters — apparently... | |
 | Ontario, Alexander Leith - Real property - 1869 - 536 pages
...fourth rule, or canon of descents, is this : thai the lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor ; that is,...succeeds before the younger son, and so in infinitum. And these representatives shall take neither more nor less, but just so much as their principals would... | |
 | Ontario, Alexander Leith - Real property - 1869 - 538 pages
...is this : that the lineal descendants, in infinitum., of any person deceased shall represent ilieir ancestor ; that is, shall stand in the same place...succeeds before the younger son, and so in infinitum. And these representatives shall take neither more nor less, but just so much as their principals would... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 812 pages
...ch. 36, rule 3 : " The lineal descendants of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor, and stand in the same place as the person himself would have done had he been living." In 4 Kent, 379, it is said, the law of Justinian adhered strictly to the doctrine of representation,... | |
 | Law - 1871 - 522 pages
...provides that all the lineal descendants B — r— '' — - of any person deceased shall represent tteir x`u bod he been living. If ttere should be no lineal descendant of B., then the kir of A. must be sought... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1872 - 776 pages
...infntium> °f апУ person deceased, *shall represent their ancestor; L •" that is, shall stand m the same place as the person himself would have done, had he been living. (18) Thus the child, grandchild, or great grandchild (either male or female) of the eldest son succeeds... | |
 | William Blackstone, David Mitchell Aird - Law - 1873 - 386 pages
...the estate as •co-heiresses. 3. That all the lineal descendants, m infinitum, shall represent the ancestor ; that is, shall stand in the same place....eldest son, succeeds before the younger son, and those representatives shall take neither more nor less, but just as much as their principal would have... | |
 | Henry Charles Deane - Conveyancing - 1875 - 528 pages
...inherit : but the females all together. Fourth IV. The lineal descendants in infinitum of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor: that is,...eldest son succeeds before the younger son, and so in infinitum.1 Rule where We now come to the rules which govern the dewithout h»ue. scent of an inheritance,... | |
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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. 
