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Executory Limitations Of Property In Missouri, Manley O. Hudson
Executory Limitations Of Property In Missouri, Manley O. Hudson
University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series
This study will deal with the present position of executory limitations of real and personal property in Missouri law, which will involve a consideration of their validity at common law and under the English statutes of uses and wills and under the Missouri statutes, and an analysis of the Missouri decisions. The doctrine that any limitation after a fee simple to which is added an absolute power of disposal is void, will be examined particularly, and an effort will be made to point out a way of escape from it.
Land Tenure And Conveyances In Missouri, Manley O. Hudson
Land Tenure And Conveyances In Missouri, Manley O. Hudson
University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series
It is impossible to apply the artificial rules of the modern law of real property without a clear understanding of the feudal system of land tenure in which they originated. The disappearance of the essentials of feudal society-the personal relation between lord and tenant and the duties owed by the tenant to the lord-has not taken away the feudal basis of the law of real property; nor has it made the common law rules, apart from statute, less applicable. But there is such a close connection between land ownership and other social institutions' that, however fixed the legal theory, the …