Liggat v. Hart
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to St. Louis Land Court. The following agreed case was submitted to the Land Court under article 20 of the practice act of 1849 (Sess.
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Error to St. Louis Land Court. The following agreed case was submitted to the Land Court under article 20 of the practice act of 1849 (Sess. Acts, 1849, p. 95) : “ On the 7th of July, 1851, Patrick McLaughlin, being seized in fee, conveyed to James Boal, and his heirs, the undivided third part of a lot of ground in block No. 99, in the city of St. Louis, having a front of 47 feet, more or less, on Locust street, and a depth of 57J feet running southwardly ; bounded north by Locust street, east by a lot of one Martin, south by a lot of John Eyrne, and west by a lot of Baptist Godoir. Prior to…
1Opinion of the Court
LEONARD, Judge,,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Mr. Butler, in a very able note to Coke’s First Institutes, (191, a,y after specifically pointing out the difference between the Roman and the feudal law, upon the subject of succession, to the estates of deceased persons, thus forcibly sums up the the contrast: “ By the Roman law, the heir was a person appointed indiscriminately by the law or the deceased to represent him, and, in consequence of that representation, was entitled to his property, and bound by his obligations. In the feudal law, the heir was a person of the blood of the…
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