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SHEEP-SILVER

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A service turned Into money, which was paid in respect that anciently the tenants used to wash the lord's sheep. Wharton. … [Read more...]

SHEEP-SKIN

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A deed; so called from the parchment it was written on. … [Read more...]

SHEEP-WALK

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A right of sheep-walk bi the same thing as a fold-course, (q.v.) Elton, Commons, 44. … [Read more...]

SHELLEYS CASE

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(Shelly's Case) This case, reported in 1 Rep. 93, contains a rule usually known as the rule in Shelley's case, which has caused more commentaries perhaps than any other case. It has been expressed with great precision, though not with much elegance, to be in any instrument, if a freehold be limited to the ancestor for life, and the inheritance to his heirs, either mediately or … [Read more...]

SHELLEY’S CASE, RULE OF

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"When the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, tak eth 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." 1 Coke, 104. Intimately connected with the quantity of estate which a tenant may hold in realty is … [Read more...]

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