Fletchers Case

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date01 January 1792
Date01 January 1792
CourtCourt of the King's Bench

English Reports Citation: 80 E.R. 620

COURT OF WARDS, AND OTHER COURTS AT WESTMINSTER

Fletchers Case

620 FLETCHERS CASE LEY, 48. tbinit. 9 jacobi regis. fletchers case. George Fletcher by his last will and testament in writing, gives and devises, all his messuages, lands, and tenements, lying and being in Southwark in the county of Surrey and Lewsham, in the county of Kent, (unto Cicely for life, since dead) and after the death of Cicely, unto his daughters Alice, Anne, and Joan, and to the heirs males of their bodies lawfully begotten, and to be begotten, and for default of such issue, to the heirs females of their bodies, provided alwayes, that if any of their said children, or any of their severall heirs of their severall bodies issuing, shall at any time hereafter alien, sell or discontinue any of the said lands to her or them given, whereby the same may not continue, as bv the true meaning of his will is appointed, that then that person or persons so offending for so much of the premisses, as he or they shall offend in, shall for his offence from thence forth be excluded, and the same shall remain, and be to the next which shall be in tail, or remainder under the like condition ; provided neverthelesse, that any of the said children or their heirs, to whom he had limited the said estate of inheritance, may...

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