West v. Biscoe
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Prince-George’s county court, sitting as a court of equity. The bill of the complainant,. (now appellee,) filéd, against William Beanes, and Stephen and.
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Appeal from Prince-George’s county court, sitting as a court of equity. The bill of the complainant,. (now appellee,) filéd, against William Beanes, and Stephen and. Richard W. West, (the appellants,) on the 16th of September 1818, stated, that on the 9th of April 1798, Hannah West, deceased, being seized of a large real estate, by deed conveyed to said Beanes, his heirs ,and assigns, all her real estate, in trust for her‘own use during the term of! her natural life, and from and after hér death to be equally divided between her sons, the said. Stephen and Richard TV. West, as tenants in…
1Opinion of the CourtEarle, J.
The deed of trust from Hannah West to William Beanes, contains a settlement of her landed estate on her family, and is tQ be expounded most favourably to promote and effectuate her intentions. It is a deed of bargain and sale, and the uses raised thereby are not operated upon by the statute of uses, further than to vest the legal estate in fee in William Beanes, subject to the trusts therein mentioned, which arc ail executory. The chief object of the settlement is to preserve the estate to her sons, and their children, and to transmit it to the. latter unincumbered with debts. Next to this in…
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