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GREEN v. GREEN

90 U.S. 486 (____)

23 Wall. 486

GREEN v. GREEN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. L.S. Wells and W.B. Webb, for the plaintiff in error; Mr. W.S. Cox, contra.

Mr. Justice HUNT delivered the opinion of the court.

In Shelley's case,* the rule is thus laid down: "that when the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, taketh an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited either mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, the heirs are words of limitation of the estate and not words of purchase."

Mr. Preston uses the following language, which is approved...

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