An essay on the operation in wills of the word issue
Subtitle: and also of the words heirs of the body, dying without issue, and dying without leaving issue, and the periphrases of them : with a familiar illustration of that ancient rule of law, commonly called the rule in Shelley's case, and a short historical deduction of the rule from its feodal origin : with three introductory chapters on the nature of estates at common law, remainders, conditions, conditional limitations, and executory devises
By: by James Hawkshead
Series: 19th-century legal treatises -- no. 23874-23880; Making of modern law
Publisher: J. & W.T. Clarke
Published: 1826
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 562
Subjects: Inheritance and succession; Estates (Law); Shelley's case, Rule in; Remainders (Estates)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.