Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of South Carolina, Vol. 21 written by South Carolina Supreme Court and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of South Carolina, Vol. 21: Covering All the Cases (Law and Equity) From the Organization of the Court (Bay's Reports) Up to and Including Volume 25 of the South Carolina Reports; Containing a Verbatim Reprint of Vol. 4 Desaussure's Equity Reports, and Vol. 1 McCord's Equity Reports The question made for the consideration of the court was, what estate the said John Augustus Benton took in the real estate so devised to him, and who were entitled to the same on his decease. Chancellor Gaillard, who heard the cause, was of opinion, that the devisee took a fee conditional at common law in the said land; and that on his death without issue the same reverted to the donor and his heirs, and de scended to Hannah Kimbrough, the widow, and to the only daughter of John Kimbrough, (wife of defendant) as his heirs at law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.