 | Horace Binney, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1810 - 642 pages
...testator is " to give the rule of construction, is declared by all the "judges both ancient and modern; but the judges, after " laying down the true rule built upon intention, unfortu" nately admitted that if there were no words of limitation, " the common law rule must prevail;... | |
 | Hugh Henry Brackenridge - Law - 1814 - 608 pages
...give the rule of construction : but after laying down thfc true rule built upon intention, they admit that if there were no words of limitation, the common law rule must prevail ; by which they tied a gordian knot, which they have since struggled to untie. It would... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 774 pages
...prescribed to testators by the statute of wills which enabled them to dispose of their lands at pleasure. But the judges, after laying down the true rule built...there were no words of limitation the common law rule must prevail, by which they tied a Gordian knot which they have struggled since to untie. It would... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 966 pages
...from it will quiet more titles, than adhaesion to it will disturb. Again for a more POINTED example. 'The judges after laying down the true rule, built...upon intention, unfortunately admitted that, if there be no words of limitation the common law rule must prevale ; Ьзт which they tied a gordian knot,... | |
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... that if there were no words of limitation, the common law rule must prevail ; by which they tied a gordian knot, which they have since struggled to untie. It would have been better to have cut it at once. 