Selected quad for the lemma: son_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	brother_n	daughter_n	sister_n	75,810	5	11.5950	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84200	The exact law--giver faithfully communicating to the skilfull the firm basis and axioms of their profession. To the ignorant their antient and undoubted birthrights and inheritances. Being as a light unto all the professors of the law, as well counsellors as atturneys, clerks, soliciters, scriveners, &c. Or a manu-ductio, or a leading, as it were, by the hand, all such, both of the gentry or laity (as desire to be instructed how to gain or preserve their estates from the hands of their cruell adversaries) to the perfect knowledg of the common and statute law of this nation.		1658 (1658)	Wing E3652; Thomason E2128_1; ESTC R201913	81,570	230

hereafter more plenteously So likewise it is of Lands given to an House Ecclesiasticall in pure and frank alms Moreover if Land be given to a man and to his blood or unto him and to his seed he hath in both cases an estate of Inheritance for in the last he hath a fee-tayl and in the other a fee-simple for these words seed and blood and such like do imply words of Inheritance Also if Lands be given to a man and and to his Heirs males or females he hath by this gift a fee-simple because it is not expressed of what body the Issue shall come But now it is to be seen The half-blood who be said to be a mans Heirs in the Law ye shall therefore know that my Brother or Sister by the half-blood that is to wit by the Fathers side and not by the Mothers or contrariwise by the Mothers side and not by the Fathers shall never be mine Heir A Bastard shall be no Heir nor none that come of them neither my bastard can be mine Heir nor mine own naturall Father nor Mother nor Grandfather nor Grandmother can be mine Heir for it is a principle and ground of the Law A ground of the Law That Inheritance may lineally descend but ascend it cannot and therefore if I have Lands in fee-simple and die without Issue of my blood my Father cannot be my Heir but my Fathers Brother or Sister shall and then if my Unkle or Aunt die seized without Issue my Father shall have the Lands as Heir to mine Unkle and not as Heir to me for that cannot be but it may go from me to my Unkle or Aunt well enough for that is not called a lineall ascention but a collaterall descent Also ye shall understand Lineall and Collaterall descent That a lineall descent is when the descent is conveyed in the same line of the whole blood as Grandfather Father and Sonne and so down and collaterall descent is of another branch from above of the whole blood as the Grandfathers Brother or Fathers Brother and so descending And ye shall also note That by the Common Law of this Realm the eldest Sonne shall have the whole Inheritance and after him if he have no Issue the second Sonne and so forth and if I have no Sonnes but Daughters then shall all the Daughters together inherit which be called Coparteners Copartners But if I have no Issue at all neither Sonnes nor Daughters then shall my eldest Brother in heritage succeed me but if I have no Brother then my Sisters if I have any if not my Unkle by my Fathers side if the Lands be of mine own purchasing or if they descended unto me from my Father and to be short if there be none in life of my Fathers side the purchased Land shall go to my Mothers side and if there can be found no Heir neither by my Fathers side nor yet by my Mothers then shall it Escheat Escheat as they call it to the Lord of whom it was holden for every Land must needs be holden of some Lord as shall be hereafter shewed But if Lands descend unto me by my Mothers side then if I fail of Issue the Lands shall descend only to my Heirs of my Mothers side and never to mine Heirs of my Fathers side as on the contrary side if I have Lands or any Tenements by descent from my Father or his blood they shall never descend to my Heirs by my Mothers side And thus you see a great difference in this behalf Diversitie between purchased Land and Lands which descend from an Ancestour If there be three Sonnes and the middle Sonne purchase Lands and die without Issue the eldest shall have the Lands and not the youngest And it is a principle in our Law A ground of the Law That none can be mine Heir of Lands that I hold in the Fee-simple unless he be mine Heir by the whole blood that is to say both by Father and Mother for if a man have Issue two or three Sonnes by sundry Wives and the eldest purchaseth Lands in fee and dieth without Issue his half brethren I mean these that be not his Brethren both by the Fathers side and Mothers side shall not have his Land but it shall go to his Unkle Likewise if a man hath by his first Wife a Sonne and a Daughter and by his second Wife another Sonne and the Sonne by the first Wife purchaseth Lands in fee-simple and dieth without Issue the Sister-germaine that is to say both by the Fathers side and Mothers shall have the Lands by descent as Heir to her Brother and not the younger Brother for as much as the younger Brother cannot in this case be Heir of his elder Brother because he is no Brother-germane unto him Otherwise it is of Lands or other hereditaments entailed as shall be hereafter specified Also if a man be seized of Lands in fee-simple and hath Issue a Sonne and a Daughter by one Wife and after the death of his first Wife a Sonne by another Wife and dieth and the eldest Sonne entreth into the Lands and after he dieth without lawfull Issue of his body the Daughter shall have the Lands and not the youngest Sonne and yet the youngest Sonne is Heir to his Father but he is not so unto his Brother But in this case if the eldest Sonne hath not entred after the death of his Father but had died before any entrie made by him then shall not the Sister-germaine enter but the younger Brother is Heir to his Father because the eldest Brother was never in actuall possession which is requisite to the person that claimeth to be Heir collaterally But to the lineall Heirs it sufficeth that the Ancestour should have been Heir if he had lived I mean as thus a man seized of Lands and hath Issue a Sonne and a Daughter by one Wife and afterwards a Sonne by another he dieth and after his death the eldest Sonne entreth not but dieth without Issue before he can make actuall entrie here in this case his Sister shall not have the Lands as Heir to her Brother because her Brother was not in actuall possession but the younger Brother shall have them as Heir to his Father yet if the eldest Sonne in that case had left behind him Issue of his body whether it had been Sonne or Daughter this Issue notwithstanding that the Father of the Issue was never possessed either actually or in the Law shall have the Lands and shall convey his descent from his Father the cause hereof is this that the Sonne or Daughter is lineall Heir whereas the Brother Sister Unkle Aunt c. be Heirs collaterall and so ye shall observe a diversity Diversitie I call an actuall possession when a man entreth indeed into Lands which be to him descended but a possession in Law is called when Lands be descended to a person and he hath not yet really and

actually entred into them for notwithstanding that he is not in actuall possession yet he is possessed in the Law that is to say Haereditae quid sit in the eye and consideration of the Law he is deemed to be possessed for as much as he is Tenant for every mans Action that will sue for the said Lands or else assuredly there should ensue an intollerable inconvenience as we shall more copiously open in another place Ye shall furthermore understand that this word Inheritance is not only to be accommodate and applied to that which cometh by descent or succession from a mans ancestors or predecessors but also to every purchase in fee-simple or fee-tayle And note That a man can have no larger or greater estate then fee-simple CHAP. XIV Of Fee-Tayle YE shall understand that before a certain Statute called the Statute of West second West 2. Chap. 1. there was no estate tayle but all was fee-simple either purely that is to say without condition or at the least way conditionally Division as appeareth by the presence of the said Estatute but now sithence the promulgation of the Estatute divers forms of Estates Tayle have risen Fee-tayle is when it is prescribed and limited in the gift what sort of Heirs and by whom engendred shall inherit As for example I give Lands to a man and to his Heirs and go no further this is a fee-simple but if I make a limitation and adde of his body begotten now it is a fee-tayle that is to say a fee or Inheritance limited prescribed determinate or assigned So that if I give Lands to a man and to his Heirs he hath fee-simple but if I give Lands to him and to his Heirs of his body lawfully begotten he hath but a fee-tayle forasmuch as I appoint limit prescribe and express what Heirs they shall be and for lack of such Heirs the gift shall be expired and worn out and the Land shall be reverted again to the giver or his Heirs But ye must observe and Note That there be two kinds of fee-tayle there is a generall tayle and there is a speciall tayle Fee-taile generall is where Lands be given to a man and to his Heirs of his body begotten without any mentioning and expressing by what woman they are begotten And therefore if a man be Tenant in the generall tayle of Lands Generall taile and taketh a wife and hath Issue by her and she dieth and afterwards he taketh another wife of whom he hath also other Issue by her either of these Issues is inheritable to this Land entayled But if I express in the gift by what woman the Heirs shall be procreated and ingendered then it is an especiall tayle as for example to make the thing plain Especiall taile If Lands be given to a man and to his Heirs of his body lawfully begotten by Margaret his wife this is an especiall tayle for the Issue of him begotten by another woman shall never inherit by force and vertue of the tayle Likewise it is if Lands be given to a woman and to the Heirs of her body lawfully begotten and shew not by what man this is a generall tayle but if I go forward and say by such a man her husband then it is an especiall tayle Also if I give Lands to a man and to his wife and to the Heirs of their two bodies lawfully begotten this is an especiall tayle as well in the husband as in the wife Semblable it is if a man giveth Lands to another man with his Daughter or Kinswoman in frank marriage Frank-marriage this word frank marriage implieth an estate tayle speciall and in this case as well the man as the woman hath an an estate in the speciall tayle But if I give Lands to a man and to such a woman and to his Heirs that he hath begot of her here the woman hath an estate but for terme of her life and the Husband an estate in the especiall tayle and likewise it is in the womans behalf as if I give Land to a man and to his wife and to her Heirs of her body by her said Husband engendred he hath an estate but for terme of life and she an estate in the speciall tayle but in both cases if I had said to the Heirs and not to his or her Heirs then should either of them have had an estate in the speciall tayle because this word Heirs is as well referred to the one as to the other Ye shall also understand That if Lands be given to a man Descent by Heir males and to the Heirs males of his body this is an estate tayle and in this case the Heir female shall never inherit Also if a man hath Issue and dieth and Lands be given to him and to his Heirs of his body begotten this is a good estate tayle although the father were dead at the time of the gift Finally it is to be noted that of Lands which a man hath in fee-simple the possession of the Brother shall cause the Sister-germaine that is to say the Sister both by Fathers side and Mothers to inherit and in this case the Brother by the half-blood shall not inherit as heretofore was said but of Lands which be entailed Otherwise it is therefore if a man be seized of Lands in the generall tayle and hath issue by his first wife a Sonne and a Daughter and also a Sonne afterwards by another wife and dieth and the eldest Sonne entreth into the Lands and after dieth the Sister-germaine to the eldest Sonne shall not have the Land but the younger Brother of the half-blood because whosoever shall inherit Land or any other hereditaments in tayle must claim them as next and immediate Heir not to him that dieth last seized of the Lands but to him to whom the Lands were first given unto whom in the case before remembred is the Sonne and Heir and not the Daughter Thus ye shall mark a great diversity between the form of succession in the Lands of fee-simple Diversitie and the form in fee-tayle CHAP. XV. Tenant after possibility of Issue extinct WHen Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments be given to a man and to his wife and to the Heirs of their two bodies lawfully begotten if in this case either of them chance to die before they have Issue between them Dispunishable of waste he or she that overliveth is still Tenant in tayle but without possibility of any Issue that can be Heir to these Lands or hereditaments thus entayled and for this cause he or she thus over-living is called Tenant in Tayl after possibility of Issue extinct for in such a Tenant is all possibility of Issue that may be inheritable to these Lands by force of the gift in tayle utterly extinct or quenched and by his or her death the estate tayle shall expire cease and be abolished for ever and shall revert and turn again to the giver or donor from