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Inheritance
January, 1834, are the following:- (1) That inheritances shall lineally descend to the issue of the person who last died actually seized, in infinitum, but shall never lineally ascend. (2) That the male issue shall be admitted … whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate by right of representation as his heir t law. The 'canons of inheritance' are the rules directing the descent of real property throughout the lineal
Institutions
the form prescribed by law, and not invalidated, may be carried into execution, which is done by the heir accepting the succession. Fiduciary Bequests are treated of in Titles XXIII. and XXIV. Testamentary Successions, which take place … of Pupils, or such as have Tutors; of Minors, or such as have Curators appointed to them; and lastly, of persons who are of age and masters of their own actions. In Title XX matters relating to
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Possessio fratris
could not be heir to this estate, because he was only of the half-blood to A., the person last seised; but it descended to a sister (if any) of the whole-blood to A.; for in such cases
Seisina facit stipitem
the old rule of intestate succession to real estate was that descent must be traced from the person last seised, i.e., in possession. (Seisin makes the heir.) But see now the Inheritance Act, 1833 (3 & 4
Ultimus h'res
Ultimus h'res, the last or remote heir, that is, the sovereign who succeeds failing all relations, Scots Law.
Per and post
Per and post. To come in in the per is to claim by or through the person last entitled to an estate, as the heirs or assigns of the grantee: to come in the post is … in the per is to claim by or through the person last entitled to an estate, as the heirs or assigns of the grantee: to come in the post is to claim by a paramount and prior
Possession is nine points of the law
the latter shall keep the estate; and so, also, if the claimant be a natural son of the last owner and adopted by him, and declared by him to be designed as his heir, yet if he
Magna Carta
seven years; all disseisins then or dispossessings of the lawful owners of lands which took place before the last circuits were ancient, but all disseisins since were novel. Mortancestor was an action brought against a person who … words:-'First, we have granted to God, and by this our present charter have confirmed for us and our heirs for ever, that the Church of England shall be free and shall have her whole rights and liberties
Settlement
a similar ultimate devolution for the use of several persons in succession after the person first named. See last title, and SETTLEMENT ESTATE DUTY. The conveyance of property -- or of interests in property -- to provide … beneficiaries, usu. members of settlor's family in a way that differs from what the beneficiaries would receive as heirs under statutes of descent and distribution-, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1377. (In the Poor Law), the
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