One of two estates will merge in the other, as often

as that estate, if in the tenancy of a distinct

person, might have been surrendered to the

tenant of the other estate........................

Page.

.... 152

Of the general analogy between the law on merger

and surrender........

...... 153

That the more remote estate must be as large as

or larger than the more immediate estate...... 106

Of the gradation of estates

Of the merger of estates at will.....

Estates by extent...........

For years in each other........

....

108

176

..... 177

... 182

One term in another when the more re-

mote term is a remainder.............. 211

An interesse termini will neither cause or prevent

Estates after possibility of issue extinct, are for all

the purposes of merger, estates for life, and

may merge in estates of that, or of a supe-

rior degree....

219

.... 222

Estates for life may merge in each other or in larger

estates......

Of the merger of estates-tail.........................

225

..... 240

of determinable qualified fees........... 259

on powers and fee in the same per-

The several estates must be held in the same

legal right; or when the estates are held in

different legal rights, one of them must not be

an accession to the other, merely by the act of

law

273

Page.

Exemption, 1. As between husband and wife 298, 300

2. Executors and administrators hav-

ing one estate in their own right,

and another in right of their tes-

6. Trustees and cestuis que trust........ ib.

7. Descent to one of several joint-

tenants.....

8. Parsons........ .............

9. Prebendaries..... ..... ..

ib.

300

... ib.

...... 306

Freehold of wife will not merge in the estate of

husband.........

Of the accession of one estate to another when the

two estates are held in different rights, one as

executor or administrator, and the other in pro-

prio jure.......

......

.........

Exemption from merger as between persons who are

seised as individuals of one estate and of ano-

ther estate as part of an aggregate corpora-

tion........

Other exceptions in favor of

1st, Estates-tail ..

2d, Seisin to raise uses........................

Exemption does not apply as between trustees and

cestuis que trust..........

309

311

314

ib.

... 315

Merger of trust in legal ownership............... 327

A person cannot be trustee for himself............ 328

No equity between representatives............... ib.

Merger of charges.......

Examination of the cases of

ib.

Saunders v. Bournford and others 321

On the merger of estates-tail, and their exemption

from merger...................

Examination of the cases of

Holt v. Sambach.......

Symonds v. Cudmore............

Shelburne v. Biddulph................................ 350

.... 360

Exemptions and privilege from merger under the

construction which the statute of uses has re-

Kinaston v, Clarke

........ ib.

As to the destruction of contingent remainders...... 399

The union of two estates in the same person by

means of the joint act of the respective owners

of these estates, with an intention that the

estate of their assignée should continue for the

collective time of their several estates, will not

be any cause of merger...............

.... 408

Examination of Bredon's case..

410

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The manner in which merger affects the party whose

estate is merged.......................................

The situation in which it leaves other persons

who have any claims on the estate which is

merged, or any interest derived out of that

estate........

The effect which it produces on the estate in

which the merger takes place...

.....

446

ib

..... ib.

As to first and second mortgagees 457

Attendant terms........

ib.

465

467

Estates subject to a condition........ 502

to be enlarged on condi-

tion........

to be enlarged by confir-

mation.......

lease.......

ib.

ib.

by re-

ib.

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The manner in which merger affects persons in their

individual capacity, and also in their corporate

capacity.....

titles by curtesy.......

to dower.......

who are copyholders.......

who claim by descent........

1. As to estates......

2. As to estates-tail...........

3. As to copyholds.... .....

557

559

..... 565

—who have collateral interests, or de-

Persons in ventre sa mere.......

rivative estates........

--

who have equitable estates......

who are creditors....

who have legal and equitable in-

terests united...............................

who have a prior title, and are

interested or may be affected by the conse-

quences of a merger...

573

who have collateral claims upon, or

interests derived out of both or either of the

estates which are united; and under this head

of the acceleration of the estate in reversion

or remainder as a consequence of the merger ib,