 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1284 pages
...(4) A fourth rule or canon of descent is this: that the lineal descendants in infiuitum of auy persmi deceased shall represent their ancestor; that is,...person himself would have done had he been living. (5) A fifth rule is that, on failure of linenl descendants, or issue of the person last seised. the... | |
 | John Houston Merrill, Thomas Johnson Michie, Charles Frederic Williams, David Shephard Garland - Law - 1894 - 1074 pages
...shall inherit, but the females altogether; fourth, the lineal descendants in inßnitum, of any person deceased, shall represent their ancestor, that is,...person himself would have done had he been living; fifth, on failure of lineal descendants or issue of the person last seised the inheritance shall descend... | |
 | William Blackstone (Sir) - Great Britain - 1897 - 838 pages
...V. The lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased, shall represent their ancestor, ie, shall stand in the same place, as the person himself would have done, had he been living. Representation by Race. Thus the child or grandchild, either male or female, of the eldest son succeeds... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 570 pages
...that the lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased, shall represent their ancestors : that is, shall stand in the same place as the person...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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 640 pages
...in accordance with the canon of descents ' that the lineal descendants in iiifinitum of ajiy person deceased shall represent their ancestor, that is,...person himself would have done had he been living:' 2 Blackstone, 217; Ib. 225. If our conclusion be correct that a distribution is to be made to the statutory... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth, Charles William Vickers - Forms (Law) - 1899 - 336 pages
...naturally extended themselves to the other free tenures. (iv) Lineal descendants in infinitum of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor; that is, shall stand in the same place as the ancestor himself would have done had he been living. From the reign of Edward I, this principle of... | |
 | George Washington Kirchwey - Real property - 1900 - 596 pages
...shall inherit, but the females all together. 4. The lineal descendants, I'M 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 fast seised, the inheritance shall descend... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1900 - 888 pages
...ancestor, that is, shall stand in the (r) Bracton, lib. 2, c. 29. (s) Co. Litt. 10 b ; Fleta, lib. 6, c. 1. same place as the person himself would have done had he been living (t). Hence it is, that the son or grandchild, whether son or daughter, of the eldest sou succeeds before... | |
 | Charles Theodore Boone - Real property - 1901 - 646 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;5 5. On failure of lineal descendants, or issue of the person last seised, the inheritance shall... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1902 - 540 pages
...rule, or canon of descents, is this; that the lineal *2iy] descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased, *shall represent their ancestor; that is,...person himself would have done, had he been living. (44) Thus the child, grandchild, or great-grandchild (either male or female) of the eldest son succeeds... | |
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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. 
