 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - 1844 - 684 pages
...conclude the doctrine of remainders and reof merger. . versions, it may be proper to observe, that whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and...one and the same person, without any intermediate estate,*1 the less is immediately annihilated ; or, in the law phrase, is said to be merged, that is,... | |
 | Joshua Williams - 1845 - 458 pages
...continues, so long, in the eye of the law, does his estate last (t). I It is a rule of law, that " whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and...person, without any intermediate estate, the less is im/ ] mediately annihilated ; or, in the law phrase, is said to • ' / Merger. be merged, that is,... | |
 | Esek Cowen - 1845 - 872 pages
...coincide in the same person, in one and the same right, without any intermediate estate, the less estate is immediately annihilated, or, in the law phrase, is said to be merged. This rale, at law, is inflexible. And where the equitable and legal estates unite in the game person,... | |
 | Francis Hilliard - 1848 - 480 pages
...same person, without any intermediate estate, the less is immediately annihilated, or in legal phrase, merged, that is, sunk or drowned, in the greater. Thus, if there be tenant for years or for life, and the reversion in fee-simple descends to or is purchased by him ; the term for years... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1854 - 692 pages
...CHAPTER IV.— OF MERGER. 1993. Merger is the annihilation of one estate in another ; it takes place when a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one...any intermediate estate ; the less is immediately merged, that is, sunk or drowned in the latter; example, if there be a tenant for years, and the reversion,... | |
 | William Wetmore Story - 1856 - 848 pages
...costs. 2 MERGER. § 946. A term for years may be extinguished by merger. Merger is defined to be, " when a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one...and the same person, without any intermediate estate ;" 8 in which case the less estate merges in the greater. Whenever, therefore, a tenant becomes possessed... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court, Esek Cowen - 1859 - 864 pages
...from setting up the mortgage as a subsisting security. e rule. The rll'e 'si ^Iat wherever a-greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one and the...be merged, that is, sunk or drowned in the greater. (2 Black. Com. 177. 3 Lev. 437. 2 Rep. 60, 61.) Semi. Where I have not met with any case where the... | |
 | Joshua Williams - 1859 - 496 pages
...thereto, continues, so long, in the eye of the law, does his estate last (i). It is a rule of law, that " whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one and the same (A) Fearne, Cont. Rem. 317; 5 Bing. NC 609. see Doe d. Duvies v. Gatucre, (i) Fearne, Cont. Rem. 286.... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1920 - 680 pages
...is in possession. The law of merger is fully and completely stated by Blackstone in this language : "Whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and...is immediately annihilated, or, in the law phrase, it is said to be merged, — that is, , sunk or drowned in the greater. Thus, if there be a tenant... | |
 | John Willard - 1861 - 718 pages
...definition of the term. The case put by Blackstone is an apt illustration of the rule. Whenever, he says, a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one...person, without any intermediate estate, the less is annihilated or is said to be merged, that is, sunk or drowned in the greater. (2 Black. Com. 177.)... | |
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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;!... 
