 | William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 698 pages
...living. BEFORE we conclude the doctrine of remainders and reversions, it may be proper to observe, that whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and...and the same person, without any intermediate estate v, the less is immediately annihilated; or, in the law phrase, is said to be merged, that is, sunk... | |
 | Massachusetts, William Charles White - Law - 1810 - 208 pages
...for the maxim of law is, " accessoriiui'. nan -duett, scd gcynitur suum princifiale." JV. Of merger. Whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and...the same person, without any intermediate estate, the less is immediately annihilated ; or, in the law phrase, is said to be merged, that is, sunk or... | |
 | Richard Preston - Conveyancing - 1816 - 616 pages
...circumstances which furnish the conclusion that a merger has taken^ place, (b) Sometimes merger is described to be whenever a greater estate and a less coincide...said to be merged, that is, sunk or drowned in the (a) Webb and Russel, 3 Term Rep. 402. greater, (c) . Nothing is more clear, than that merger is an... | |
 | William Sheppard - Conveyancing - 1820 - 1178 pages
...reversioner had a greater estate for yean or not. Cro. Eliz. 302 ; Via. Abr. Merger (G.) Merger is described to be, whenever a greater estate and a less coincide...said to be merged; that is, sunk or drowned in the greater. Thus, if there be tenant for years, and the reversion in fee simple descends to or is purchased... | |
 | Charles Barton - Conveyancing - 1821 - 696 pages
...living. Before we conclude the doctrine of remainders and reversions, it may be proper to observe, that whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and...and the same person, without any intermediate estate u , the less is immediately annihilated ; or, in the law phrase, is said to be merged, that is, sunk... | |
 | Alexander Whellier - 1825 - 836 pages
...tenements, till the party shall appear to be living. Before we conclude, it may be proper to observe,that whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and...the same person, without any intermediate estate, the less is immediately annihilated, or, in the law phrase, is said to be merged, that is, sunk or... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 626 pages
...living. BEFORE we conclude the doctrine of remainders and reversions, it may be proper to observe, that whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and...and the same person, without any intermediate estate y, the less is immediately annihilated; or, in the law phrase, is said to be merged, that is, sunk... | |
 | Sir Edward Coke, John Henry Thomas - Land tenure - 1827 - 884 pages
...is described to be whenever a great(-r»estale ami я les« coincide ami meet in one and the «ame person without any intermediate estate ; whereby the...less is immediately annihilated, or is said to be nv-rçed, that is, sunk or drowned in the greater. Thus, if there be I"iiant lor years, and the reversion... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Sir Cresswell Cresswell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1827 - 1014 pages
...is founded ? Blackstone, in 2 Comm. 177. describes it as occurring, when a greater and a less estate coincide and meet in one and the same person, without any intermediate estate, and he puts as an instance where tenant for years obtains the fee. Bacon, in his Abridgment, tit. Leases,... | |
 | Richard Preston - Conveyancing - 1829 - 612 pages
...circumstances which furnish the conclusion that a merger has taken place (i). Sometimes merger is described to be whenever a greater estate and a less coincide...said to be merged, that is, sunk or drowned in the greater (c). Nothing is more clear, than that merger is an act of (a) Webb and Ruisel, 3 Term (6) Hilliard... | |
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BEFORE we conclude the doctrine of remainders and reversions, it may be proper to observe, that whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one and the same person, without any intermediate estate y, the less is immediately annihilated;... 
