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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. "
Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books - Page 214
by William Blackstone - 1807
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A Dictionary of American and English Law: With Definitions of the Technical ...

Stewart Rapalje, Robert Linn Lawrence - Law - 1883 - 770 pages
...shall inherit all together. (4) The lineal descendants of any person deceased shall represent him ; tc shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done had he been living. Therefore, if the purchaser leaves a daughter, and a grandson by a deceased son, the grandson takes...
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A Manual of the Law of Real Property: Including, Also, General Rules of Law ...

Charles Theodore Boone - Real property - 1883 - 566 pages
...the lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor, that is, stand in the same place as the person himself would have done had he been living.6 Fifth, on failure of lineal descendants, or issue of the person last seized, the inheritance...
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Summary of the Law of Intestate Succession in Scotland: With a ..., Book 120

Peter Hay Cameron - Inheritance and succession - 1884 - 556 pages
...entitled by descent 280. Fourth Rule.— That all the lineal descendants in infinitum of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor ; that is,...himself would have done had he been living. Thus, in the case above mentioned, if A. the eldest son was dead leaving a son, that son would exclude his...
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Summary of the Law of Intestate Succession in Scotland: With a ..., Book 120

Peter Hay Cameron - Inheritance and succession - 1884 - 556 pages
...entitled by descent. 280. Fourth Rule.—That all the lineal descendants in infinitum of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor; that is,...himself would have done had he been living. Thus, in the case above mentioned, if A. the eldest son was dead leaving a son, that son would exclude his...
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Concise Manual of the Law Relating to Vendors and Purchasers of Real Property

Henry Seaborne - Real property - 1884 - 506 pages
...shall inherit, but the females altogether. Rule 4. 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. On failure of lineal descendants or issue of the person last seised, the inheritance shall...
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A Digest of the Questions Asked at the Final Examination of Articled Clerks ...

Richard Hallilay - Civil procedure - 1884 - 678 pages
...entitled to the land, as by the fourth canon of descent the lineal decendants in infinitum of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor, that is,...person himself would have done had he been living: (see Will. EP 105, 13th edit.) Q.—A. diss seised of real estate without issue, and intestate, leaving...
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 146

Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1246 pages
...Commentaries, p. *217), which reads as follows: "That the lineal descendants in infimtum of : any person deceased, shall represent their ancestor: that is, shall stand in the same place us the person himself would have done had he been living." They insist that this canon of the common...
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The Northeastern Reporter, Volume 4

Law - 1886 - 932 pages
...descents, "that the lineal descendants m infinitum of any person deceased shall represent their .ancestors; that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done had he been living. * * * And these representatives shall take neither more nor less, but just so much, as their principals...
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The American Probate Reports: Containing Recent Cases of General ..., Volume 4

Probate law and practice - 1886 - 652 pages
...of Blackstone's fourth clause of descents, "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. * * * And these representatives shall take neither more nor less, but just so much as their principals...
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Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in ..., Volume 114

Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 828 pages
...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. * * * And these representatives shall take neither more nor less, but just so much as their principals...
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