Pifer v. Locke

Citations

• 205 Pa. 616
• 55 A. 790
• 1903 Pa. LEXIS 625

Syllabus

<p>Beal estate — Buie in Shelley's Case — Devise.</p> <p>Generally the words child and children prima facie are words of purchase and not of limitation, but if the remainder, even where these words are used, is to go .to the general or lineal heirs as pointed out by law, they are synonymous with “heirs of the body’’and by analogy to the rule in Shelley’s Case, the estate for life is enlarged into a fee or into an estate tail by implication.</p> <p>Where the language of a will is “I will and devise to my daughter H the house and lot ... . for and during her natural life, and at her death I devise and bequeath the same unto her children or issue in fee simple,” the daughter takes an estate in fee tail general which the statute resolves into an estate in fee simple.</p>