 | William Blackstone - 1902 - 540 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 merged, (43) that is, sunk or drowned in the greater. Thus, if there be (u>) 3 Lev. 407. (у) 3 Lev. 437. (i)... | |
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals - 1872 - 860 pages
...distrain for rent or maintain an action for waste. Fox v. Long 551 7. Wherever a greater estate and a less meet in one and the same person, without any intermediate estate, the less is immediately merged into the greater. (2 Blackstone, 177; 4 Kent, 103.) Ibid 551 & WHERE LAND HAS BEEN IMPROPERLY... | |
 | Richard Edgar Kemp - 1903 - 650 pages
...continues, so long in the eye of the law does his estate last (w). 2. By Merger. It is a rule of law, that " whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and...be merged, that is, sunk or drowned in the greater " (#). From the operation of this rule, an estate tail is preserved by the effect of the statute De... | |
 | Frederick Stroud - 1903 - 820 pages
...Cr. M. & R. 726, citing A. v. Capper, 5 Price, 260). MERELY CHARITABLE. — F. PURPOSE. MERGER. — "Whenever a greater ESTATE and a less coincide and...be merged, that is, sunk or drowned in the greater" (2 Bl. Com. 177: Touch. 347, и), in other words, a Merger is accomplished by Operation of Law. It... | |
 | Herbert Thorndike Tiffany - 1903 - 1644 pages
...mortality tables to assist in the computation.11' Merger of estate. It is a well-settled rule of law that whenever "a greater estate and a less coincide and...is immediately annihilated, or, in the law phrase, it is said to be 'merged,' ««Hagan T. Varney, 147 I1L 281; Varney v. Stevens, 22 Me. 331; Jenks v.... | |
 | Herbert Thorndike Tiffany - 1903 - 894 pages
...mortality tables to assist in the computation.110 Merger of estate. It is a well-settled rule of law that whenever "a greater estate and a less coincide and...is immediately annihilated, or, in the law phrase, it is said to be 'merged,' m Hagan v. Varney, 147 1ll. 281; Varney v. Stevens, 22 Me. 331; Jenks v.... | |
 | William Albert Finch - 1904 - 1398 pages
...confusion." " Merger is described as the annihilation of one estate in another. It takes place usually when a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one...the same person, without any intermediate estate, whereby the less is immediately merged — that is, sunk or drowned in the greater." Garland v. Paplin,... | |
 | 1905 - 1278 pages
...right without any intermediate estate, "the less is immediately annihilated, or, In law phrase, It Is said to be merged — that Is, sunk or drowned — In the greater." 2 Blackstone, Comm. 177. Speaking of this doctrine as applied to a life estate upon which contingent... | |
 | John Harold Hammond, C. G. W. Davidson - 1906 - 572 pages
...estate the beneficial interest in which would not be deemed to be merged or extinguished in equity. " Whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and...merged, that is, sunk or drowned in the "greater:" 2 Bla. Comm. 177; but Equity always leant against merger and only permitted it for special reasons:... | |
 | Joshua Williams - 1906 - 822 pages
...whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one and the same NC C09. (d) Fearne CR 286. 3CO person, without any intermediate estate, the less...be merged, that is, sunk or drowned in the greater " (e) . Merger. From the operation of this rule, an estate tail is preserved by the effect of the statute... | |
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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;!... 
