 | Edward Burtenshaw Sugden - 1823 - 752 pages
...inontrovertibl* rule, that where an estat« is given toi person generally, or indefinitely , with i power of disposition, it carries a fee ; and the only exception to the rule is, where the test an- gives the first taker an estate for life only, by certain and express words, and annexes to... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1851 - 694 pages
...Chancellor KENT in delivering the opinion of the Court of Errors, takes occasion to remark that when an estate is given to a person generally or indefinitely,...carries a fee, and the only exception to the rule is when the testator gives the first taker an estate for life only by certain or express words and annexes... | |
 | N. Saxton, New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1836 - 766 pages
...Chancellor Kent, in the court of errors of New- York, says, we may lay it down as aw incontrovertible rule, that where an estate is given to a person generally or indefinitely, with a power of dtsposition, it carries a fee ; and cites the additional authorities of Reid v. Shergold, I'd F«.... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1880 - 850 pages
...absolutely necessary to uphold some manifest general intent." 4 Kent's Com., 319. " So, if an estate be given to a person generally, or indefinitely, with a power of disposition, it carries a fee ; unless the testator gives to the first taker an estate for life only, and annexes to it a power of... | |
 | James Kent - 1848 - 798 pages
...express either the quantity of interest, or describe the subject of property, as the sense in which generally, *or indefinitely, with a power of disposition, it carries a fee ; unless the testator gives to the first taker an estate for life only, and annexes to it a power of... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1851 - 696 pages
...takes occasion to remark that when an estate is given to a person generally or indefinitely, with & power of disposition, it carries a fee, and the only exception to the rule is when the testator gives the first taker an estate for life only by certain or express words and annexes... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1907 - 832 pages
...v. Robins, 16 Johns. (NY) 588, Chancellor Kent said: " ' We may lay it down as an incontrovertible rule, that where an estate is given to a person generally,...exception to the rule is, where the testator gives to the first taker an estate for life only, by certain and express words, and annexes to it a power of disposal.... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1918 - 854 pages
...Chancellor Kent, in Jackson v. Robins, 16 Johns. (NY) 588: " "We may lay It down as an incontrovertible rule that where an estate is given to a person generally...indefinitely, with a power of disposition, it carries a fee. The only exception to the rule is where the testator gives to the first taker an estate for life only,... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1910 - 806 pages
...Chancellor Kent, in Jackson v. Robins, 16 Johns. (NY) 588: "We may lay it down as an incontrovertible rule that where an estate is given to a person generally...indefinitely, with a power of disposition, it carries a fee. The only exception to the rule is where the testator gives to the first taker an estate for life only,... | |
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We may lay it down as an incontrovertible rule that, where an estate is given to a person generally or indefinitely with a power of disposition, it carries a fee, and the only exception to the rule is where the testator gives to the first taker an estate... 
