Readings in the Law of Real Property: An Elementary Collection of Authorities for StudentsGeorge Washington Kirchwey |
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... actual rela- tions to the life of the community and not as an artificial system , invented to fasten the yoke of feudalism on a free people and perpetuated to preserve a monopoly of injustice to conveyancers , this is the great ...
... actual rela- tions to the life of the community and not as an artificial system , invented to fasten the yoke of feudalism on a free people and perpetuated to preserve a monopoly of injustice to conveyancers , this is the great ...
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... actual tenant is his tenant , although there be an intermediate lord . Further if the lord allege that the tenant has wrongfully entered upon his fee , I say it is not so , because the fee is not the property of the lord , but the ...
... actual tenant is his tenant , although there be an intermediate lord . Further if the lord allege that the tenant has wrongfully entered upon his fee , I say it is not so , because the fee is not the property of the lord , but the ...
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... actual seisin or possession ; or in law , when after a descent the person on whom the lands de- scend has not actually entered and the possession continues vacant , not being usurped by another . When lands of in- heritance are carved ...
... actual seisin or possession ; or in law , when after a descent the person on whom the lands de- scend has not actually entered and the possession continues vacant , not being usurped by another . When lands of in- heritance are carved ...
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... actual service , knight - service is frequently confounded with it . And thus Littleton1 must be understood when he tells us that tenant by homage , fealty , and escuage was tenant by knight - ser- vice , that is , that this tenure ...
... actual service , knight - service is frequently confounded with it . And thus Littleton1 must be understood when he tells us that tenant by homage , fealty , and escuage was tenant by knight - ser- vice , that is , that this tenure ...
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... actual service was uncertain and depended upon emergencies , so it was necessary that this pecuniary compensation should be equally uncertain and depend on the assessments of the legislature suited to those emergen- cies . For had the ...
... actual service was uncertain and depended upon emergencies , so it was necessary that this pecuniary compensation should be equally uncertain and depend on the assessments of the legislature suited to those emergen- cies . For had the ...
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alienation ancestor attornment body called cestui chattels claim common law common socage condition contingent remainder convey conveyance copyholder corporeal court coverture created curtesy custom death deed descend dieth donor dower entitled equitable estate escheat escuage estate in fee estate of inheritance estate tail executors executory devise expressed fealty fee simple fee tail feoffee feoffment feoffor feudal forfeiture freehold gavelkind gift grant grantor held hereditaments hold holden husband incorporeal hereditaments joint-tenancy joyntenants king knight-service knight's lands and tenements lands or tenements lease legal estate lessee lessor limited Littleton livery of seisin lord manor moiety owner ownership parceners particular estate person possession profits purchase Quia Emptores REAL PROP real property rent reversion rule scutage seised seisin serjeanty Stat statute Quia emptores tenant in fee tenant in tail tenants in common term thereof thing tion trust vested villein villenage wardship wife word heirs writ
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Page 169 - And therefore on a feoffment to A and his heirs, to the use of B and his heirs...
Page 261 - ... in case there shall be no special occupant of any estate pur autre vie, whether freehold or customary freehold, tenant right, customary or copyhold, or of any other tenure, and whether a corporeal or incorporeal hereditament, it shall go to the executor or administrator of the party that had the estate thereof by virtue of the grant...
Page 543 - September be made and executed shall be adjudged fraudulent and void («) against any subsequent purchaser or mortgagee for valuable consideration, unless such memorial thereof be registered as by this Act is directed before the registering of the memorial of the deed or conveyance under which such subsequent purchaser or mortgagee shall claim...
Page 169 - So if lands are conveyed to A and his heirs to such uses as he shall appoint ; and he appoints to B and his heirs to the use of C and his heirs, the legal estate is vested in B, and Cs interest is equitable only.
Page 543 - ... every such conveyance not so recorded shall be void as against any subsequent purchaser, in good faith and for a valuable consideration, of the same real estate, or any portion thereof, whose conveyance shall be first duly recorded.
Page 178 - Where a trust is created to receive the rents and profits of lands, and no valid direction for accumulation is given, the surplus of such rents and profits, beyond the sum that may be necessary for the education and support of the person for whose benefit the trust is created, shall be liable, in equity, to the claims of the creditors of such person...
Page 334 - Contingent or executory remainders (whereby no present interest passes) are where the estate in remainder is limited to take effect, either to a dubious and uncertain person, or upon a dubious and uncertain event; so that the particular estate may chance to be determined, and the remainder never take effect.
Page 27 - I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary, property therein: wherefore, if a body of water runs out of my pond into another man's I have no right to reclaim it. But the land, which that water covers, is permanent, fixed, and immovable: and therefore in this I may have a certain substantial property; of which the law will take notice, and not of the other. Land hath also, in its legal signification, an indefinite extent, upwards as well as downwards.
Page 396 - Such power of alienation is suspended, when there are no persons in being, by whom an absolute fee in possession can be conveyed.
Page 346 - Future estates are either vested or contingent. They are vested, when there is a person in being, who would have an immediate right to the possession of the lands, upon the ceasing of the intermediate or precedent estate.