A Practical Treatise on the Law of Perpetuity: Or, Remoteness in Limitations of Estates: as Applicable to the Various Modes of Settlement of Property, Real and Personal, and in Its Bearing on the Different Modifications of Ownership in Such Property

William David Lewis

Saunders and Benning, 1843 - 746 Seiten

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INTRODUCTION	lxxiii

Holland and Rawley	lxxxiii

Chatham Earl v Daw Tothill 355	lxxxiv

Morse	lxxxv

The right of disposal of property being the creature	1

Uses limited in derogation of previous partial estates	3

CHAPTER I	7

Glance at the origin and progress of the feodal system	8

Circumstance of intention to restrict first taker to	355

Authorities showing this	362

Eason 194 364 387 391	364

No exception analogous to that of devise of reversion	367

SUBDIVISION III	373

If this construction rebutted first taker has absolute	378

56	384

12333	387

Extension of this power to tenants in capite and substi	14

But tenant for life may be debarred from joining with	23

CHAPTER IL	27

Probability of this enactment proving unwelcome to	30

Arguments on which their inapplicability to copyhold	34

CHAPTER III	36

Of the destruction of entails by fine	38

CHAPTER IV	44

But rule will not apply if first failure restricted on ground	45

Right to execute new disentailing assurances equally	48

Clitherow and Allanson	52

Conveyances to Uses not abolished by the Statute	54

This power equally belongs to customary tenants in tail	63

The reasons urged in support of a contrary view	66

Definition of an Executory devise	72

Limitation to the heirs of J S during his life or to A	73

Cockerell and Garratt 225 227 333	87

Doctrine of Executory bequests proceeds on assumption	88

Of Executory bequests of chattels personal	94

Formerly ruled that when such chattels were given	100

Their chief resemblance consists in an entire disregard	106

Springing and Shifting Uses must be raised out of	110

On the vesting of a Springing or Shifting Use	116

As to the transmissibility and alienability of interests	120

Cockrell and Hanbury	127

Observation as to the paucity of express authorities	128

Early apprehension of the evils of perpetuities or remote	130

Observations upon Pells v Brown	141

The decision in Stephens v Stephens established	147

Case of Lloyd v Carew	153

Same case sub nom Cadell v Palmer in Dom Proc	159

222	161

CHAPTER XIII	165

Rule requires a limitation to be such as will necessarily	170

Consideration of effect of statute 1 Vict c 26 post	175

Estatetail raised by implication under devise on failure	181

29	183

Gift to A in fee and if he and B die without issue	185

Idiomatic interpretation different	191

Todd v Duesbury 193 199	193

But not in deeds	196

Case of Doe d Cape v Walker	203

Charge of money of less importance in reference to gifts	210

Walker	214

Whether the effect of the construction is to restrain failure	216

If gift to survivor for life only restricted construction	221

And in wills words leaving children also refer to	224

The question whether the failure is restricted to death	227

But no restrictive construction arises from association	230

Case of Walter v Drew	236

As between prior express and implied restriction of failure	242

Age specified must not be greater than twentyone or gift	244

After	250

Nature and operation of such devises	253

Effingham Earl and Dorchester	261

Observations on Bankes v Holme and Egerton v Jones	262

99	264

Lord Cokes illustrations of this rule	268

Recent cases bearing upon the doctrine	270

Gompertz	278

Prior gift to sons in tailmale	284

When there is no preceding gift to the parent	288

to A for life and after his death without issue to B	294

But the person whose issue is to fail must be in esse	297

Contingency of a persons death without heirs open to	309

Limitations to bastards and denizens and their heirs	315

xliv	320

Breton	322

Cadogan v Ewart	325

Word leaving authorizes this construction	326

Expressions and circumstances of restrictive force as	330

Bequest of chattels to survivors of a class of persons	337

Question of the application of the referential construction	394

Introductory observations	396

And where preceding bequest to ancestor in words which	402

Remainders may be too remote because particularestates	409

The circumstance of contingent remainders being destruc	416

Dorchester Lord v Effingham	420

Remainder expectant on a particularestate for life to per	422

And that though the vesting of each lifeestate be post	423

Doctrine presumes an intention to create a succession	430

Case of Monkhouse v Monkhouse considered as to this	436

Construction of cyprés not applied to limitations in deeds	440

OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF REMOTENESS IN LIMITA	442

Observations upon Goodtitle d Cross v Woodhull	448

CHAPTER XVII	455

Same rules applicable to limitations to other classes	461

bequest to persons	470

Limitations of rents to persons from time to time in posses	476

Case of Charity Commissioners v baroness De Clifford	479

Powers the object of which is to create a perpetuity void	485

Wright 244 355 385	491

Appointment to child of child unborn at time	492

When Power confined to persons within prescribed limits	498

Necessary that valid and remote contingencies should	506

Distinction upon this point as to one instance of limita	509

Francis	512

These rules not departed from because consequence	517

Rule is that prior limitation becomes absolute and remote	532

Legge	533

Doctrine obtains notwithstanding ordinary rule in favor	540

Doubt of legality of unrestricted Powers originated	542

Duffoy and Theobalds	545

Authorities upon the subject of unlimited Powers	548

Powers not extended to representatives of donee if living	554

Powers of sale in mortgages not open to any objection	560

Powers declared on limitations in strict settlement though	562

General observations as to unlimited special Powers	569

Case of Bankes v Le Despencer	576

And primâ facie therefore trusts in question invalid	577

If direct object of executory trust be creation of a perpe	584

A branch of the decision in Mogg v Mogg considered	590

Case of Curtis v Lukin	596

The extent to which the possession is accelerated in	600

Nature of this doctrine and its present weight	602

No rule of Common law rendering unnecessary provi	608

The possessions of the Church not embraced by the laws	609

Of conditions with reference to Rule against remoteness	614

lxii	615

CHAPTER XXX	622

Case of Jones v Say and Seal	630

This doctrine if sustainable an insufficient answer to	636

If expiration of leases properly restricted no objection	642

If trust of accumulation merely engrafted on limitations	643

Case of Ibbetson v Ibbetson	649

Remoteness in a limitation as it affects prior gifts	657

CHAPTER XXXII	663

Devises of reversions expectant on estatestail	668

When executory limitation not connected immediately with	669

The authorities not uniform upon the point	675

Allowed under license from the Crown	688

But general result decidedly unfavorable to charitable	707

CHAPTER XXXIII	710

They permit at present day the strictest unbarrable entail	718

Le Despencer 576579 585	723

Extract from the third Report of the Commis	735

Opinions upon the question whether the word

Extract from an opinion relative to a cove

Uses limited to take effect in futuro or Springing	1

Earle and Doswell	4

366	5

Company	6

Legislative settlements of estates in favor of families	8

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Seite 53 - That where any person or persons stand or be seised, or at any time hereafter shall happen to be seised, of and in any honors, castles, manors, lands, tenements, rents, services, reversions, remainders or other hereditaments, to the use, confidence or trust of any other person or persons...

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Seite 292 - ... unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will by reason of such person having a prior estate tail or of a preceding gift being without any implication arising from such words a limitation of an estate tail to such person or issue or otherwise.

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Seite 692 - Majesty, and her most noble progenitors, as by sundry other well-disposed persons: some for relief of aged, impotent and poor people, some for maintenance of sick and maimed soldiers and mariners, schools of learning, free schools...

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Seite 515 - ... it has long been an established rule for the guidance of the Courts of Westminster in construing devises, that all estates are to be holden to be vested, except estates, in the devise of which a condition precedent to the vesting is so clearly expressed, that the Courts cannot treat them as vested, without deciding in direct opposition to the terms of the will.

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Seite 301 - ... tail, or of a preceding gift being, without any implication arising from such words, a limitation of an estate tail to such person or issue, or otherwise: Provided, that this act shall not extend to cases where such words as aforesaid import if no issue described in a preceding gift shall be born, or if there shall be no issue who shall live to attain the age or otherwise answer the description required for obtaining a vested estate by a preceding gift to such issue.

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Seite 296 - Devise shall be construed to vest in such Trustee the Fee Simple, or other the whole legal Estate which the Testator had Power to dispose of by Will in such Real Estate, and not an Estate determinable when the Purposes of the Trust shall be satisfied . XXXII.

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Titel	A Practical Treatise on the Law of Perpetuity: Or, Remoteness in Limitations of Estates: as Applicable to the Various Modes of Settlement of Property, Real and Personal, and in Its Bearing on the Different Modifications of Ownership in Such Property
Autor/in	William David Lewis
Verlag	Saunders and Benning, 1843
Original von	Oxford University
Digitalisiert	21. Sept. 2006
Länge	746 Seiten

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