33 Ohio App. 3d 46 - Ewing v. McClanahan’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. ““Returning to older Ohio cases we find that in 1880 Ohio real property law still required that a fee simple deed contain words of inheritance or perpetuity. By this we mean a manifestation that an owner’s interest was not limited to his life alone but passed to his heirs or beneficiaries. * * * it * * * “As a consequence of our review of the record and authorities as they stood when the deed in issue was executed, we conclude that the intention of the parties in light of the law then in existence was to reserve to Bainum, for his life alone, a personal right to use the road he granted Padgett. Because the right was personal to Bainum, it ended with his death. Accordingly, no such right to use this parcel as a road lies in his successors in interest, such as the appellees.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 79 Ohio App. 3d 573 - Burk v. State