 | Horace Binney, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1810 - 642 pages
...people do not distin- M'hn FVNA " guish between real and personal property. The rule of law *' however, is established and certain, that express words of...limitation, or words tantamount, are necessary to pass an es** tate of inheritance. ' All my estate' or ' all my interest' will " do: but ' all my lands lying... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1813 - 502 pages
...dinary people do not distinguish between real and personal property [F 2]. The rule of law, however, is established and certain, that express words of...local situation, and only carry an estate for life. Nor are words tending to disinherit the heir at law sufficient to prevent his taking, unless the estate... | |
 | William Roberts - Executors and administrators - 1815 - 622 pages
...657. ante, Sect. 4. • Dovgl. 759. untr, Sect. 4. 568 Import of Words and Phrases. CHAP. IV, mount, are necessary to pass an estate of inheritance, '...place/ is not sufficient; such words are considered merely descriptive of the local situation, and only carry an estate for life ; nor are words, tending... | |
 | William Cruise - Real property - 1818 - 624 pages
...for ordinary people do not distinguish between real and personal property. The rule of law however is established and certain, that express words of...place is not sufficient; such words are considered merely as descriptive of the local situation, and only carry an estate for life ; nor are words tending... | |
 | William Cruise - Real property - 1818 - 624 pages
...for ordinary people do not distinguish between real and personal property. The rule of law however is established and certain, that express words of...inheritance. All my estate, or all my interest, will dp ; but all my lands lying in such a. place is not sufficient ; such words are considered merely as... | |
 | Maryland. Court of Appeals, Thomas Harris, Reverdy Johnson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1825 - 614 pages
...law considers sufficient to pass the fee, wheoi used by a testator for that purpose, the rule of law, "that express words of limitation, or words tantamount,...are necessary to pass: an estate of inheritance," must prevail, and the devisee can only take an estate for life, no matter what conjecture or private... | |
| |
I verily believe, that in almost every case where by law a general devise of lands is reduced to an estate for life, the intent of the testator is thwarted; for ordinary people do not distinguish between real and personal property. The rule of law however... 
