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Shelley's case, Rule in

Common law rule that an interest to a person then that person's heirs became vested in the person only

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    A succinct view of the rule in Shelley's case exhibiting by negative and affirmative propositions, the instances in which several limitations, one to the Ancestor, the other to the Heirs,-The Heirs of the Body,-or Issue of the Body of that Person, do and do not give the inheritance to the ancestor. By Richard Preston, Of the Inner Temple, Author of the Elementary Treatise on the Quantity of Estates.

    Preston, Richard, 1768-1850. | Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]
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    A succinct view of the rule in Shelley's case exhibiting, by negative and affirmative propositions, the instances in which several limitations, one to the Ancestor, the other to the Heirs,-The Heirs of the Body,-or Issue of the Body of that Person, do and do not give the inheritance to the ancestor. By Richard Preston, of the Inner Temple, Author of the Elementary Treatise on the Quantity of Estates.

    Preston, Richard, 1768-1850. | Date: M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]

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