Handbook of the Law of Real Property

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West Publishing Company, 1914 - 997 pages
 

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Page 356 - The present capacity of taking effect in possession, if the possession were to become vacant, and not the certainty that the possession will become vacant before the estate limited in remainder determines, universally distinguishes a vested remainder from one that is contingent.
Page 400 - The absolute ownership of personal property shall not be suspended by any limitation or condition, for a longer period than during the continuance and until the termination of not more than two lives in being...
Page 586 - In the establishment of these relations, the rights of the original inhabitants were in no instance entirely disregarded, but were necessarily, to a considerable extent, impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion...
Page 802 - TOGETHER with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments, and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues, and profits thereof.
Page 399 - the absolute power of alienation shall not be suspended by any limitation or condition whatever for a longer period than during the continuance of not more than two lives in being at the creation of the estate...
Page 312 - ... 4. To receive the rents and profits of real property, and to accumulate the same for the purposes, and within the limits, prescribed by law.
Page ii - Of elementary treatises on all the principal subjects of the law. The special features of these books are as follows: 1. A succinct statement of leading principles In black-letter type. 2. A more extended commentary, elucidating the principles. 3. Notes and authorities.
Page 312 - To receive the rents and profits of real property, and apply them to the use of any person, during the life of that person, or for any shorter term, subject to the provisions of law relating thereto; 4.
Page 359 - A contingent remainder is a remainder limited so as to depend on an event or condition which may never happen or be performed, or which may not happen or be performed till after the determination of the preceding estate...
Page 663 - A fourth rule or canon of descent is this ; that the lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor ; that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done, had he been living.

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