Resulting use
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RESULTING USE, estates. One which having been limited by deed, expires or
cannot vest; it then returns back to him who raised it, after such
expiration, or during such impossibility.
2. When the legal seisin and possession of land is transferred by any
common law conveyance, and no use is expressly declared, nor any
consideration nor evidence of intent to direct the use, such use shall
result back to the original owner of the estate; for in such case, it cannot
be supposed that it was intended to give away the estate. 2 Bl. Com. 335;
Cruise, Dig. t. 11, c. 4, s. 20, et seq.; Bac. Tracts, Read. on Stat. of
Use's, 351; Co. Litt. 23, a.; Id. 271, a; 2 Binn. R. 387; 3 John. R. 396.