...followed by the trial court is thus laid down by Chancellor Kent (4 Commentaries, 535): "If an estate be given to a person generally or indefinitely, with a power of disposition, it carries a fee unless the testator gives the first taker an estate for life only and annexes to it a power of disposition....

...inontrovertibl* rule, that where an estat« is given toi person generally, or indefinitely , with i power of disposition, it carries a fee ; and the only exception to the rule is, where the test an- gives the first taker an estate for life only, by certain and express words, and annexes to...

...Chancellor KENT in delivering the opinion of the Court of Errors, takes occasion to remark that when an estate is given to a person generally or indefinitely,...carries a fee, and the only exception to the rule is when the testator gives the first taker an estate for life only by certain or express words and annexes...

...Chancellor Kent, in the court of errors of New- York, says, we may lay it down as aw incontrovertible rule, that where an estate is given to a person generally or indefinitely, with a power of dtsposition, it carries a fee ; and cites the additional authorities of Reid v. Shergold, I'd F«....

...absolutely necessary to uphold some manifest general intent." 4 Kent's Com., 319. " So, if an estate be given to a person generally, or indefinitely, with a power of disposition, it carries a fee ; unless the testator gives to the first taker an estate for life only, and annexes to it a power of...

...express either the quantity of interest, or describe the subject of property, as the sense in which generally, *or indefinitely, with a power of disposition, it carries a fee ; unless the testator gives to the first taker an estate for life only, and annexes to it a power of...

...takes occasion to remark that when an estate is given to a person generally or indefinitely, with & power of disposition, it carries a fee, and the only exception to the rule is when the testator gives the first taker an estate for life only by certain or express words and annexes...

...v. Robins, 16 Johns. (NY) 588, Chancellor Kent said: " ' We may lay it down as an incontrovertible rule, that where an estate is given to a person generally,...exception to the rule is, where the testator gives to the first taker an estate for life only, by certain and express words, and annexes to it a power of disposal....

...Chancellor Kent, in Jackson v. Robins, 16 Johns. (NY) 588: " "We may lay It down as an incontrovertible rule that where an estate is given to a person generally...indefinitely, with a power of disposition, it carries a fee. The only exception to the rule is where the testator gives to the first taker an estate for life only,...

...Chancellor Kent, in Jackson v. Robins, 16 Johns. (NY) 588: "We may lay it down as an incontrovertible rule that where an estate is given to a person generally...indefinitely, with a power of disposition, it carries a fee. The only exception to the rule is where the testator gives to the first taker an estate for life only,...