Commentaries on the Laws of England: In the Order, and Compiled from the Text of Blackstone : and Embracing the New Statutes and Alterations to the Present TimeSaunders and Benning, 1840 - 700 pages |
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act of parliament action advowson alien ancestor annexed appointed attainder bankrupt benefice bishop blood borough called CHAPTER chattels church civil claim commissioners common law consent conveyance coparcenary copyhold corporation court courts of equity coverture crown custom death debts declared deed deodand descendants devise dower duties ecclesiastical election Eliz emblements England entitled escheat estate tail execution executor fee simple fee tail feme covert feodal feoffment feud forfeiture freehold gavelkind grant guardian heirs held hereditaments husband inheritance Inst issue joint-tenants justices king king's kingdom knight-service lands lease lineal Litt lord male manor marriage nature oath owner parish parliament particular estate party person possession prerogative purchase remainder rent rent-charge scutages seised seisin settlement sheriff socage statute tenant in tail tenements tenure thereof tithes unless vested Vict villein villenage void wife words writ
Popular passages
Page 241 - And be it further enacted, that every will shall be construed, with reference to the real estate and personal estate comprised in it, to speak and take effect as if it had been executed immediately before the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
Page 310 - December, 1833, no person shall make an entry or distress, or bring an action to recover any land or rent, but within twenty years next after the time at which the right to make such entry or distress or to bring such action shall have first accrued to some person through whom he claims...
Page 294 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner herein-after mentioned ; (that is to say,) it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction; and such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, and such witnesses shall attest and shall subscribe the will in the presence of the testator, but no form of attestation...
Page 240 - No obliteration, interlineation, or other alteration, made in any will after the execution thereof, shall be valid, or have any effect, except so far as the words or effect of the will before such alteration shall not be apparent, unless such alteration shall be executed in like manner as hereinbefore is required for the execution of the will...
Page 242 - Bequest shall not lapse, but shall take effect as if the Death of such Person had happened immediately after the Death of the Testator, unless a contrary Intention shall appear by the Will.
Page 241 - That in any devise or bequest of real or personal estate the words " die without issue," or " die without leaving issue," or " have no issue," or any other words which may import either a want or failure of issue of any person in his lifetime or at the time of his death, or an indefinite failure of his issue, shall be construed to mean a want or failure of issue in the lifetime or at the time of the death of such person, and not an indefinite failure of his issue...
Page 300 - June no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise, to answer damages out of his own estate...
Page 239 - ... 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 26 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament.
Page 135 - Where any real estate shall be devised to any person without any words of limitation, such devise shall be construed to pass the fee simple or other the whole estate or interest, which the testator had power to dispose of by the will, in such real estate, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.