 | Charles Theodore Boone - Real property - 1883 - 566 pages
...or more males, in equal degree, the eldest only shall inherit, but the females altogether.4 Fourth, the lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person...deceased shall represent their ancestor, that is, stand in the same place as the person himself would have done had he been living.6 Fifth, on failure... | |
 | Henry Seaborne - Real property - 1884 - 506 pages
...two or more males in equal degree, the eldest only shall inherit, but the females altogether. Rule 4. The lineal descendants in infinitum of any person...person himself would have done had he been living. Rule 5. On failure of lineal descendants or issue of the person last seised, the inheritance shall... | |
 | Peter Hay Cameron - Inheritance and succession - 1884 - 556 pages
...by partition become purchasers, but continue to be entitled by descent 280. Fourth Rule.— That all the lineal descendants in infinitum of any person...himself would have done had he been living. Thus, in the case above mentioned, if A. the eldest son was dead leaving a son, that son would exclude his... | |
 | Peter Hay Cameron - Inheritance and succession - 1884 - 556 pages
...by partition become purchasers, but continue to be entitled by descent. 280. Fourth Rule.—That all the lineal descendants in infinitum of any person...himself would have done had he been living. Thus, in the case above mentioned, if A. the eldest son was dead leaving a son, that son would exclude his... | |
 | Richard Hallilay - Civil procedure - 1884 - 678 pages
...deceased's son, will be entitled to the land, as by the fourth canon of descent the lineal decendants in infinitum of any person deceased shall represent...person himself would have done had he been living: (see Will. EP 105, 13th edit.) Q.—A. diss seised of real estate without issue, and intestate, leaving... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1246 pages
...Blackstone, Commentaries, p. *217), which reads as follows: "That the lineal descendants in infimtum of : any person deceased, shall represent their ancestor: that is, shall stand in the same place us the person himself would have done had he been living." They insist that this canon of the common... | |
 | Law - 1886 - 932 pages
...descents, "that the lineal descendants m infinitum of any person deceased shall represent their .ancestors; that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done had he been living. * * * And these representatives shall take neither more nor less, but just so much, as their principals... | |
 | Probate law and practice - 1886 - 652 pages
...among them." The latter clause is but the enactment of Blackstone's fourth clause of descents, "that the lineal descendants in infinitum of any person...person himself would have done had he been living. * * * And these representatives shall take neither more nor less, but just so much as their principals... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 828 pages
...among them." The latter clause is but the enactment of Blackstone's fourth canon of descents: "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... | |
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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. 
