 | 1847 - 616 Seiten
...succeeds before the younger son, and so in ia fin i I a HI ; and these representations shall take no more nor less, but just so much as their principals would have done. And by the fifth canon, on failure of lineal descendants or issue of the person last seised, the inheritance... | |
 | 1885 - 1048 Seiten
...that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done had he been living. * * And these representatives shall take neither more...just so much as their principals would have done. * * * This taking by representation is called succession in stirpcs, according to the roots, since... | |
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... shall represent their ancestor ; that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done had he been living." " Thus, the child, grandchild, or great-grandchild, either male or female, of the eldest son, succeeds before the younger... 
