This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1820 |
| Citation: | 5 H. & J. 10 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
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| Short Summary: | Involving the devise of land and slaves to an illegitimate child. Holding that this devise is lawful and can be done so in a will whose intention was to give one child the whole estate if the other died without heir. " The converse is equally true, that where the limitation or remainder over is to take effect on the first devisee's dying without heirs, if that devisee, on whose estate the remainder depends, is of that description as to be incapable of having heirs other than issue, (which is the predicament of an illegitimate,) then it must follow, that by the word heir, issue or heir of the body only is intended; and therefore the court are of opinion, that on the death of Henrietta, without issue, her sister was entitled to the whole estate." |
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| Full name: | Pratt's Lessee vs. Flamer, et al. |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |