Descent Cast
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The same as what the older writers called a "descent which tolls entry." Where a person who had acquired land by disseisin, abatement, or intrusion died seised of the land, the descent of it to his heir took away or "tolled" the real owner's right of entry, so that he could only recover the land by an action.
Litt. § 385 et seq.; Co. Litt. 237b.
The doctrine of descent cast was abolished by St. 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c.
27; Shelf. R. P. St. 228.
The term seems to have originally meant "the happening of any descent," because the law casts the land upon the heir.
Litt. I 385; Watk. Desc. 33.