University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series Volume 1 November 1913 Article 3 1913 Estates Tail in Missouri Manley O. Hudson Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/ls Part of the Property Law and Real Estate Commons Recommended Citation Manley O. Hudson, Estates Tail in Missouri, 1 Bulletin Law Series. (1913) Available at: https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/ls/vol1/iss1/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at University of Missouri School of Law Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series by an authorized editor of University of Missouri School of Law Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. ESTATES TAIL IN MISSOURI 1 The recent case of Gray v. Ward' calls attention to the prob- lems which arise in the application of the Missouri statute8 abolishing estates tail as created by the statute De Donis Con- ditionalibus' It is believed that all of these problems have not been solved in the decisions of the Missouri Court and this study is undertaken to determine what principles have been adopted, and what further principles should control the Court in the application of this statute of entails. I. HISTORY OF ESTATES TAIL IN MISSOURI. At the beginning of the last century, estates tail were common in the United States, and common recoveries were not unknown as means of docking the entail.' But the feudal atmosphere enveloping them does not harmonize with modern notions of lard ownership,' and by statute in most of the United Stated they have been much modified.