 | William Cruise - 1806 - 852 strani
...that lands cannot be Sraward v. devifed in fuch a manner as to render them unalienable rEait.V.ioS. for a longer period than a life or lives in being, and twenty-one years and nine months after. § 1 8. There is, however, a difference, in cafes of Conftruftion... | |
 | Charles Barton - 1821 - 900 strani
...children or others in tail, equally with estates of inheritance, so that they be not rendered unalienable for a longer period than a life or lives in being and twenty-one years afterwards, see Massenburgh v. Ash, 1 Vern. 3O4. Higgins v. Dowler, 1 P. Wms. 98.... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery, Robert Henley Eden Baron Henley - 1827 - 594 strani
...never be made the menu of effectuating it. The common law will not suffer an estate to be (inalienable for a longer period than a life or lives in being, and a few years afterwards: this is now so clear and established a maxim at law, that it would be impossible... | |
 | 1833 - 560 strani
...on the subject, ever since the year 1719, is, that no person can Kmit or defer the enjoyment of land for a longer period than a life or lives in being, and twenty-one years beyond the death of the surviving tenant for life b : but whether this term must depend... | |
 | 1835 - 510 strani
...rule, we apprehend, is now well settled, and it is this,—any limitation which simply by itself might, for a longer period than a life or lives in being and twenty-one years after, prevent property, whether real or personal, from being absolutely vested, is... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1836 - 852 strani
...Fort. 232. (15) The law does not allow such a limitation of property as would render it unalienable for a longer period than a life or lives in being, and twentyone years afterwards, with the further allowance of a few months for the gestation of a child... | |
 | 1837 - 494 strani
...the score of perpetuity, unless it may, proprio, vigore, prevent the absolute alienation of an estate for a longer period than a life or lives in being and twenty-one years after. Any obstacles to alienation which may arise from infancy, lunacy, or other... | |
 | William David Lewis - 1843 - 878 strani
...support of which, it was contended, that the enjoyment of the accumulated fund might have been suspended for a longer period than a life or lives in being and twenty-one years ; and that it was not sufficient, to take the TT case out of the Rule against Perpetuities,... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1854 - 692 strani
...perpetuity, which is denned to be any limitation tending to take the subject of it out of commerce for a longer period than a life or lives in being, and twenty-one years beyond ; and, in case of a posthumous child, a few months more, allowing for the term... | |
 | Frederick Prideaux - 1856 - 870 strani
...perpetuities, which prohibits the capital or corpus of property of any description, from being tied up for a longer period than a life or lives in being, and twenty-one years from the death of the testator; and in exercising powers of appointment in favour... | |
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England, forbids tying up the ownership of property for a longer period than a life or lives in being and twenty-one years. 
