Robb v. Beaver
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the District Court of Allegheny county. John F. Beaver, Esquire, against Robert Robb. This was an amicable action in which the parties agreed to a special verdict, the substance of which may be thus stated: William Pentland and Mary his wife were seised in right of the wife of certain lots in the city of Pittsburgh, which they disposed of to various purchasers by deeds of perpetual lease, as they are usually styled, reserving certain rents to the grantors jointly.
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ERROR to the District Court of Allegheny county. John F. Beaver, Esquire, against Robert Robb. This was an amicable action in which the parties agreed to a special verdict, the substance of which may be thus stated: William Pentland and Mary his wife were seised in right of the wife of certain lots in the city of Pittsburgh, which they disposed of to various purchasers by deeds of perpetual lease, as they are usually styled, reserving certain rents to the grantors jointly. William Pentland surviving his wife, judgments were obtained against him, and these rents were levied on as his property.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Sergeant, J.
The opinion of the court below seems to us to be founded on the settled principles of our law with regard to the transfer and tenure of real estate and the power of the husband and wife by deed acknowledged to part with the wife’s estate. The execution of this deed was a transfer of the whole right, interest, and property of both husband and wife in the land. It passed to the purchaser a fee-simple which Lord Coke says is the fullest and most absolute estate which a person can have in lands. The annexing to it a condition of re-entry for…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Skerrett v. BurdSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1836
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