Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania: With Some Select Cases at Nisi Prius, and in the Circuit Courts, Volume 3J. Campbell, 1871 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... devise , it must be either so expressed , or there must be a strong and necessary implication to that effect , or it must be inconsistent with or repug- nant to her claim . Dower of 7 messuages , 2 barns , 7 gardens , 2 orchards , 30 ...
... devise , it must be either so expressed , or there must be a strong and necessary implication to that effect , or it must be inconsistent with or repug- nant to her claim . Dower of 7 messuages , 2 barns , 7 gardens , 2 orchards , 30 ...
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... devise was not given or accepted by the said Isabella in lieu of dower . This action had been originally brought against all the tenants of the lands whereof the testator died seized ; but the deaths of Alexander Ewing , ( who had ...
... devise was not given or accepted by the said Isabella in lieu of dower . This action had been originally brought against all the tenants of the lands whereof the testator died seized ; but the deaths of Alexander Ewing , ( who had ...
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... devise to his widow . Most of the cases in the books , were cited in that cause by the judges , who gave their opinions seriatim , after long advisement . There the judg- ment was rendered in favor of the tenant . But the present will ...
... devise to his widow . Most of the cases in the books , were cited in that cause by the judges , who gave their opinions seriatim , after long advisement . There the judg- ment was rendered in favor of the tenant . But the present will ...
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... Devise to M. her heirs and assigns , and M. dies in testatrix's life - time , leaving an infant son , the devise is lapsed and void , though testatrix was assured that the son would take , by one interested in the estate . Parol ...
... Devise to M. her heirs and assigns , and M. dies in testatrix's life - time , leaving an infant son , the devise is lapsed and void , though testatrix was assured that the son would take , by one interested in the estate . Parol ...
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... devise is void . 4 Term Rep . 603. And in the case of Turner's et al . lessee v . Kett , Ib . 601 , where A devised to B , and the heirs of her body , and for default of such issue , then over ; B died in the life - time of A , and then ...
... devise is void . 4 Term Rep . 603. And in the case of Turner's et al . lessee v . Kett , Ib . 601 , where A devised to B , and the heirs of her body , and for default of such issue , then over ; B died in the life - time of A , and then ...
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Page 271 - A distinction is, however, made between a condition in deed and a limitation, which Littleton denominates also a condition in law. For when an estate is so expressly confined and limited by the words of its creation, that it cannot endure for any longer time than till the contingency happens upon which the estate is to fail, this is denominated a limitation...
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