Ward v. . Ward

Counsel

Davie , for the defendant, laid it down as an established rule of law that a fee cannot be created by deed to take effect or arise in futurio; and here he said, the grantee was not to take till after the grantor's death. Mr. Attorney-General Haywood entered into a discussion of the doctrine of uses, to show that the use might be limited to take effect in this manner by the statute of uses [fn*] ; although it would not have been good at the common law. [fn*] 27 H. VIII, 10, 208.