 | William Hayes - Remainders (Estates) - 1824 - 436 pages
...the former, that the first words are to be cancelled, or overthrown; — that it was dangerous, when words have a fixed legal effect, to suffer them to...without some clear expression, or necessary implication ; that to say that the general intent should over-rule the particular, was not the most accurate expression... | |
 | Solomon Atkinson - Conveyancing - 1839 - 708 pages
...part other words inconsistent with the former, that the first words arc to be cancelled or overthrown. It is dangerous, where words have a fixed legal effect,...legal sense, because there are other inconsistent 1 11 East, 668. words. All the cases but Doe v. Goff3, decide that the latter words, unless they contain... | |
 | Edward Burtenshaw Sugden - Real property - 1849 - 830 pages
...before the estate should go over according to the final limitation. Lord Redesdale observed that it was dangerous, where words have a fixed legal effect,...without some clear expression or necessary implication. That the general intent should overrule the particular was not the most accurate expression of the... | |
 | South Carolina. Supreme Court, J. S. G. Richardson, Robert Wallace Shand, Cyprian Melanchthon Efird, William Hay Townsend, Duncan C. Ray, William Munro Shand - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 614 pages
...with the former, that the first words are to be cancelled or overthrown. * * * It is dangerous, when words have a fixed legal effect, to suffer them to...'heirs of the body' in their ordinary legal sense, but because there are other inconsistent words ; but it follows that he was ignorant of the effect... | |
 | E. O. Macdevitt - Ireland - 1884 - 588 pages
...578 : Poole v. Poole (1); Jesson v. Wright (2). Lori (1) 3 B. & P. 620. (2) 2 Bligh 56. Redesdale : " It is dangerous where words have a fixed legal effect,...some clear expression, or necessary implication." " It is a very safe rule of construction to adhere to the words <>f an Act according to their grammatical... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 666 pages
...contradiction in terms. As Lord Redesdale says in his judgment in Jesson and others v. Wright and others (4), " It is dangerous where words have a fixed legal effect...without some clear expression or necessary implication." Now, " reversion " is a well known word. Mr. Byrne has referred us to Joshua Williams on Real Property,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 754 pages
...follow i--— j the natural meaning of the words. As Lord Redesdale says in Mason v. Wriglit (1) : " It is dangerous where words have a fixed legal effect...without some clear expression or necessary implication." Keversion is a well known legal expression, and its meaning and the distinction between it and a remainder... | |
 | John Chipman Gray - Personal property - 1891 - 1022 pages
...support contingent remainders, it was clearl}' his intent to give the parent an estate tor life onl}-. It is dangerous, where words have a fixed legal effect,...to be controlled without some clear expression, or necessaiT implication. In this case, it is argued, that the testator did not mean to use the words,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1250 pages
...with the former, that the first words are to be canceled or overthrown. * * * It is dangerous, when words have a fixed legal effect, to suffer them to...'heirs of the body' in their ordinary legal sense, but because there are other inconsistent words; but it follows that he was ignorant of the effect of... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 1074 pages
...upon which a rule of property has been established and maintained wherever the common law prevails. It Is dangerous, where words have a fixed legal effect,...without some clear expression, or necessary Implication. Jesson v. Wright, supra. [5] Here the language used Is the technical language of limitation. The will... | |
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It cannot at this day be argued, that, because the testator uses in one part of his will words having a clear meaning in law, and in another part other words inconsistent with the former, that the first words are to be cancelled or overthrown. * * * It... 
