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fee simple on condition subsequent
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Condition
Condition. An event upon which a right under contract or to property may arise, become altered, or cease. Condition has been used in connection with personal obligations to distinguish one kind of obligation from another in the same transaction and to limit property. In their primary meaning, conditions precedent are events, but for the happening of which, rights will not arise.A condition subsequent puts an end to a state of things which, but for its happening, would have continued. Dependent or collateral conditions depend upon their mutual fulfilment as in a contract for sale of land where, unless otherwise agreed, the payment of the purchase money is conditional upon the conveyance and vice versa.Conditions may be imposed by the parties, either expressly or by necessary implication arising our of the construction of the document or agreement, or they may be implied bylaw according to the nature of the transaction.A peculiarity of conditions precedent is that an illegal or impossibl...
Subsequent condition
Subsequent condition. See CONDITION SUBSEQUENT....
subsequent
subsequent : following in time, order, or space see also condition subsequent at condition compare precedent ...
condition
condition 1 : an uncertain future act or event whose occurrence or nonoccurrence determines the rights or obligations of a party under a legal instrument and esp. a contract ;also : a clause in the instrument describing the act or event and its effect concurrent condition : a condition that is to be fulfilled by one party at the same time that a mutual condition is to be fulfilled by another party condition implied in law : constructive condition in this entry condition precedent [-pri-sēd-nt, -pre-sə-dənt] : a condition that must be fulfilled before performance under a contract can become due, an estate can vest, or a right can become effective condition subsequent : a condition whose fulfillment defeats or modifies an estate or right already in effect or vested or discharges an already existing duty under a contract constructive condition : a condition created by operation of law called also condition implied in law compare express condition in this entry e...
fee simple
fee simple pl: fees simple [simple without limitation (as to heirs) and unrestricted (as to transfer of ownership)] : a fee that is alienable (as by deed, will, or intestacy) and of potentially indefinite duration ;esp : fee simple absolute in this entry fee simple absolute : a fee that is freely inheritable and alienable without any limitations or restrictions on transfers and that is of indefinite duration NOTE: A fee simple absolute is conveyed by language granting the estate “to the grantee and his or her heirs,” “to the grantee, his heirs and assigns,” or “to the grantee.” The term heirs is considered in this context a word of limitation, and so this does not create a future interest in the estate in the heirs but simply makes the estate freely alienable. fee simple conditional : a fee granted to an individual and to that individual's descendants which is subject to a reversion or remainder if the grantee has no lineal descendants but wh...
Cy-pres
Cy-pres (near to it). The principle of this doctrine of construction is, that where a testator hs two objects,one primary or general and the other secondary or particular, which are incompatible, the particular must be sacrificed in order that effect may be given to the general object, as near as may be to the testator' intention, according to law. Thus, where a testator has devised lands in a manner transgressing the rules of perpetuity and the Court can by giving the estates tail to the devisees, or any of them carry the property in the precise course marked out by the testator, supposing the estates left to themselves, it will do so, see Monypenny v. Dering, 16 M & W 418. The doctrine did not apply to personalty nor to a mixed fund. See Re Harwood, Coleman v. Innes, 1936 Ch 285.It is also applied to charitable bequests, and was formerly pushed to a most extra-vagant length. But this sensible distinction now prevails, that the court will not decree the execution of a charitable trust...
fee
fee [Middle English, fief, from Old French fé fief, ultimately from a Germanic word akin to Old High German fehu cattle] 1 : an inheritable freehold estate in real property ;esp : fee simple compare leasehold life estate at estate absolute fee : a fee granted with no restrictions or limitations on alienability : fee simple absolute at fee simple conditional fee : a fee that is subject to a condition: as a : fee simple conditional at fee simple b : fee simple on condition subsequent at fee simple defeasible fee : a fee that is subject to terminating or being terminated determinable fee : a defeasible fee that terminates automatically upon the occurrence of a specified event : fee simple determinable at fee simple fee patent : a fee simple absolute that is granted by a patent from the U.S. government ;also : a patent that grants a fee simple absolute [the land shall have the same status as though such fee patent had never been issued "U.S. Code"] NOTE: Allotm...
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