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Contingent Use

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Contingent use, is a use limited in a conveyance of land, which may or may not happen to vest, according to the contingency expressed in the limitation of such use: see Cun. Law. Dict.; 1 Rep. 11; Gilbert on Uses, 3rd Edn. By e.B. Sugden, p. 164 n.

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