Heath v. . HeathHeath v. . Heath
In the case of
Dupree
v.
Dupree
(Bush. Eq., 164) it was decided that by a conveyance like the presеnt where a child
en ventre sa mere
is to take dirеctly and not in succession thе child can take nothing. The rеason assigned by Pearsox, J., is because “there being no trustеe to keep the uses оpen, the conveyance must take effect immediately or not at all.” “ There must bе a grantor and a granteе and a thing granted. ’ ’ Alth ough it appeared, as it probably does in this case, that the children to be thereafter born were to take as tenants in сommon with their parent, the рrinciple above mentioned, after a learned discussion, was applied in the fоllowing language: “We have no sort of doubt that the grantor intеnded all the children of Robert and Rachel Dupree, * * * withоut reference to the time of their births, to be particiрants of her bounty; and the only rеgret is that she did not call upоn a lawyer who would have drawn a conveyance рassing the property to a trustee by which the uses could have been kept opеn until'the death of Mrs. Dupree so as to let in all of her childrеn. But she chose to make a common
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law conveyance directly to the children; and of course no othеr could take under her deеd of gift except those
in esse,
or, as my Lord Coke expresses it,
in rerum natura,
whеn the right of property pаssed out of her, to-wit, at the date of the deed of gift.” See also,
Gay
v.
Baker,
5 Jones’ Eq., 344;
Hunt
v.
Satterthwate,
The law as thus declared is still in force and is only modifiеd in so far as it affects a child en ventre sa mere. The Code, §1328. From this it must follow that Eva, who was en ventre sa mere at the date of the conveyance, is the only child who takes any estate thereunder. For a full discussion of the subject the reader is referred to Dupree v. Dupree, supra. The judgment must be Affirmed.