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A43190	England and Wales. Court of Chancery.	The heads of the judges arguments for the deceased Duke of Norfolk, in the case between him and his brother Mr. Charles Howard, with some observations on the Lord Chancellor Nottingham's arguments.	1685.0		.xml	application/xml	2811	92	62	This is a stretch farther than ever before was endeavoured , the Judges have gone as far as is fit in indulging mens dispositions of Terms to take effects by Limitations after Lives — If this Limitation should be admitted ( if Thomas dye without Issue in the Life of Henry , then the next strain would be to limit a Term over upon ones dying without Issue during the Lives of two or three , and then of twenty men : and then if he should dye without Issue within seven years , for that is equal to a Life , and then within twenty years , then why not within a hundred years , and then why not within a thousand , or during the term , &c. for all these are less Interests in the eye of the Law , than a Freehold , and where should we end or stop ; for it must be confessed that there is the same reason for all these , as it was by experience found upon the Judgment of Mathew Manning's Case , when it was once allowed that a term for years might be limited to one , and if he died within the term then to another ; it was soon found that there was the same reason to allow a Limitation of it after two as twenty Lives , which hath been the occasion of Fettering Estates exceedingly by such Limitations of terms to take effect after Lives , and made the Judges often repine at that Judgment , and declare that if it were now a new Case , since they have seen the Inconveniencies of it ) it would never have been so adjudged . 4. It 's agreed on all hands that there is the same reason and ground of allowing Limitations of terms for years at Law , as there is for allowing Limitations of trusts of terms for years in Equity and no other : Now there hath never been any Judgment that the Limitation of a Term to one , after anothers dying without Issue was good — It hath been often endeavoured , and ( if it could have gained the Precedent of such a solemn Resolution ) would no doubt of it , be too often practiced .	cache/A43190.xml	txt/A43190.txt
