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Definition of Descendible
1. a. Admitting descent; capable of being descended.
Definition of Descendible
1. Adjective. (legal) Of property, able to pass by descent; inheritable by heirs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Descendible
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Descendible
Literary usage of Descendible
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Digest of the Laws of England Respecting Real Property by William Cruise (1827)
"descendible. Bac. Read. 11. Host. 14 b. Tit. 29. 9 Rol. Ab. 780. Inconveniences of
Uses. * 406 que use had no legal seisin of the land. ..."
2. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1828)
"... their succession is therefore descendible according to the lex ... without doubt,
descendible according to the law of the state where such stocks are ..."
3. Reports of Cases in Chancery, Argued and Determined in the Rolls Court by Baron Henry Bickersteth Langdale, Chaloner William Chute, John Romilly Romilly, Charles Beavan (1856)
"In my opinion, the word is used in this sense:—that the word "descendible" is
applicable to what is the quality of the estate or interest in its inception, ..."
4. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1867)
"Lastly (6), we may observe, that estate« gained by prescription are not, of
course, descendible to the heirs general, like other purchased estates, ..."
5. An Elementary Treatise on Estates: With Preliminary Observation of the by Richard Preston (1820)
"... will be descendible, in like manner as the seisin was descendible to the
grantee.(f). ... descendible ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages by John Joseph Powell, Thomas Coventry (1822)
"... and that there was an everlasting subsisting right of redemption, descendible
to the heirs of the mortgagor, which could not be forfeited at law like ..."
7. An Essay on Uses and Trusts: And on the Nature and Operation of Conveyances by Francis Williams Sanders, George Williams Sanders, John Warner (1844)
"SECT. x. X. I shall now examine the properties of the tics of a use. uac- The
proper. - it ™ de- (1.) It was descendible according to the rules ..."
8. An Elementary Treatise on the American Law of Real Property by Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman (1892)
"Reversion — descendible to whom. 388. Dower and curtesy In reversions. 389.
Rights and powers of the reversion. § 385. Definition. ..."
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