Excerpt from The American and English Encyclopædia of Law, Vol. 27In Pennsylvania, where an estate was devised in trust for a woman for life, remainder to the heirs of her body lawfully begotten, and she was neither married nor contemplating marriage, the trust was held to be a dry trust merely, executed by the Statute of Uses, and her estate, therefore, an estate tail. Pennsylvania Trust, etc., Co.'s Appeal, 93 Pa. St. 209.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.