8 Smith & H. 172 - Shearin v. Shearin’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
February 1960
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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““One cannot be tenant by the curtesy of a remainder or reversion, expectant upon an estate of freehold, unless the particular estate has determined during the coverture. Reed v. Reed, 40 Tenn. (3 Head) 492 , 75 Am. Dec. 777 ; Prater v. Hoover, 41 Tenn. (1 Cold.) 544 ; Upchurch v. Anderson, 62 Tenn. (3 Baxt.) 410; Verhine v. Ragsdale, 96 Tenn. 532 , 35 S. W. 556 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Roten v. Hicks
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