Dukes of Bedford and Gloucester, life peerages; but these were afterward surrendered and regranted "in the usual descendible form," so that they rather made against the present case than for it.
Another example of a base fee is an estate descendible to heirs general, but terminable on an uncertain event; for example, a grant of land to A and his heirs, tenants of the manor of Dale.
FIRST, it is in general hereditary, or descendible to the next heir, on the death or demise of the last proprietor.
Lands are not naturally descendible any more than thrones: but the law has thought proper, for the benefit and peace of the public, to establish hereditary succession in one as well as the other.
It was not suggested that the late earl had more than one earldom of Mar, but Lord Kellie claimed it as descendible to heirs-male under a creation by Queen Mary, and Mr Goodeve as descendible to heirs of line under an earlier creation.
Another explanation is that estates were granted to be descendible in the same way as an ancient inheritance, which having passed from father to son ex necessitate went to collaterals on failure of issue of the person last seized.
Defn: The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs.
The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "descendible" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
