 | William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 698 pages
...BEFORE we conclude the doctrine of remainders and reversions, it may be proper to observe, that whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one...and the same person, without any intermediate estate v, the less is immediately annihilated; or, in the law phrase, is said to be merged, that is, sunk... | |
 | Massachusetts, William Charles White - Law - 1810 - 208 pages
...maxim of law is, " accessoriiui'. nan -duett, scd gcynitur suum princifiale." JV. Of merger. Whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and ^ meet in...be merged, that is, sunk or drowned in the greater. Thus, if there be tenant for years, and the reversion in fee simple descends to or is purchased by... | |
 | Richard Preston - Conveyancing - 1816 - 616 pages
...furnish the conclusion that a merger has taken^ place, (b) Sometimes merger is described to be whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one...the same person, without any intermediate estate, whereby the less is immediately annihilated, or is said to be merged, that is, sunk or drowned in the... | |
 | Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, John Henry Thomas - Land tenure - 1818 - 752 pages
...subject which is intimately connected with the law of surrender. Merger is desci ¡bed to be whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one...and the same person without any intermediate estate; whereby the less is immediately annihilated, or is said to be merged, that is, sunk or drowned in the... | |
 | William Sheppard - Conveyancing - 1820 - 1178 pages
...estate for yean or not. Cro. Eliz. 302 ; Via. Abr. Merger (G.) Merger is described to be, whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one...the same person, without any intermediate estate, whereby the less is immediately annihilated, or is said to be merged; that is, sunk or drowned in the... | |
 | Charles Barton - Conveyancing - 1821 - 696 pages
...Before we conclude the doctrine of remainders and reversions, it may be proper to observe, that whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one...and the same person, without any intermediate estate u , the less is immediately annihilated ; or, in the law phrase, is said to be merged, that is, sunk... | |
 | Alexander Whellier - 1825 - 836 pages
...the party shall appear to be living. Before we conclude, it may be proper to observe,that whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one...be merged, that is, sunk or drowned in the greater. Thus, if there be tenant for years, and the reversion in fee simple descends to, or is purchased by... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 626 pages
...BEFORE we conclude the doctrine of remainders and reversions, it may be proper to observe, that whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one...and the same person, without any intermediate estate y, the less is immediately annihilated; or, in the law phrase, is said to be merged, that is, sunk... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1827 - 916 pages
...estate and a less coincide and meet in one and the same person, without any intermediate estate, (y) the less is immediately annihilated ; or, in the law phrase, is said to be nterged, that is, sunk or drowned in the greater. Thus, if there be tenant for years, and the reversion... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Sir Cresswell Cresswell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1827 - 1014 pages
...is founded ? Blackstone, in 2 Comm. 177. describes it as occurring, when a greater and a less estate coincide and meet in one and the same person, without any intermediate estate, and he puts as an instance where tenant for years obtains the fee. Bacon, in his Abridgment, tit. Leases,... | |
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Before we conclude the doctrine of remainders and reversions, it may be proper to observe, that f whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one and the same person, without any intermediate estate/ the less is immediately annihilated;!... 
