How did Sirius get the Grimmauld Place? Common Law Ref.

[emza29]

No: HPFGUIDX 131753

Bboyminn:
> > > 
> > ><snip> First are 'Entailments' which are legal conditions tied 
to
> > > an estate that can have legal precedence that can be applied 
> > > across centuries, in some cases applied to an estate forever. 
> > 
a_svirn:
> > 
> > As far as I know entails were supposed to be confirmed in each 
> > generation. Moreover, they could be "broken" with the heir's 
consent 
<SNIP>



The trouble with the entail theory, which does ring true in terms of 
how Sirius might have inherited the Black estate, is that Grimmauld 
Place itself seems to have been his mother's house, not his 
father's, and therefore, self-evidently, had either descended 
through the female line, or had been bought by Mrs Black with her 
own money. If it had been inherited by Mrs Black, it could therefore 
be passed on to another female. If she had bought it with her own 
money, it would not be encumbered by an entail, and she could leave 
it how she wished.

If this is so, how *did* Sirius end up with it? Mrs Black's 
attachment to the family is terribly strong - maybe despite her 
personal feelings towards her worthless son, in the end her 
attachment to the proper descent of property won out.

Anyway...given that it is Mrs not Mr Black's, I assume that there is 
either other property somewhere, to which knowledge we are not 
privy, or "the Black estate" was nothing more than a bunch of 
mouldering magical artefacts.

Emma