 | MARSHALL D. EWELL - 1888 - 368 pages
...the United States.] 4. The fourth rule is, that all the lineal descendants in infinitum of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor; that is,...person himself would have done had he been living. 5. The fifth rule at the common law is, that on failure of lineal descendants, or issue of the person... | |
 | Stewart Rapalje, Robert Linn Lawrence - Law - 1888 - 772 pages
...shall inherit all together. (4) The lineal descendants of any i>erson deceased shall represent him ; if 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... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton, John Mounteney Lely - Law - 1889 - 800 pages
...inherit ; but the females all together. (4) That the lineal descendants in infinitiim, of any person deceased, shall represent their ancestor; that is,...person himself would have done had he been living. (5) That on failure of lineal descendants, or issue of the person last seised, the inheritance shall... | |
 | John Chipman Gray - Personal property - 1890 - 988 pages
...shall inherit, but the females all together. 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. 5. On failure of lineal descendants, or issue, of the person last s»isod, the inheritance shall descend... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1890 - 850 pages
...lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person ' deceased [*1*] shall represent their ancestor; J that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself / would have done, had he been living.§ ' [1 Thus the child, grandchild, or great-grandchild (either male or female) of the eldest son succeeds... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 1014 pages
...the females altogether." The fourth was, " that all lineal descendants in infínitum of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor; that is, shall stand in the same place as tbe ancestor himself would have done had he been living." Under the fifth canon, "on the failure of... | |
 | Thomas Brett - English law - 1891 - 660 pages
...lands, and in some lands of customary tenure. Rule 4. The lineal descendants I'M infinitum of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor: that is,...succeeds before the younger son, and so in infinitum. The four first rules of descent which have just been stated apply alike to estates in tail unless and... | |
 | John C. Devereux - Law - 1891 - 432 pages
...rule, or canon of descents ? — 217. It 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. »8. Wliat is this taking by representation called? — 217. It is called succession in stirpes, according... | |
 | Joshua Williams - Conveyancing - 1892 - 780 pages
...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 " (m). Now, in what place would the deceased daughter have stood had she been living ? Would she have... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1893 - 558 pages
...fourth rule or canon of descents, is this: thafr the lineal Jescendants, tn 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... | |
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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. 
