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contingency fee

Matched in: Term contingency fee

for treason or felony. In fact, he was treated at Common Law as the absolute tenant of the fee. (8) A use, being but the creature of equity, could not have been taken in execution for the … either- (1) Resulting; (2) Implied. II. Future or executory, distributable into: (a) Shifting or secondary; (b) Springing; (c) Contingent. See TRUSTS. Objections to uses before the Statute:- 'Though these uses' (see Gilbert, Uses, c. 1, s. 8)

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fee

Matched in: Term fee

Executory devise

the third to personal estate only, viz.:- (1) Where a testator devises his whole fee-simple, but upon some contingency qualifies such devise, and limits an estate on the contingency; e.g., a devise of land to the testator's

contingency

Matched in: Term contingency

Springing use

legal estate was conferred upon A. attaining that age by virtue of the statute. The use may be contingent as in that case, or vested, as grant to B. to the use of A. in fee upon

Law of Property Act, 1925 (English)

less than the fee or entire term, e.g., entailed estates, estates for life, in remainder whether vested or contingent, and married women's estates subject to a restraint upon anticipation (see SETTLED LAND settled land). (3) Legal estates

aleatory

depending on an uncertain event or contingency as to both profit and loss [the nature of a lawyer's contingency fee arrangement]

Contingent remainder

and a contingent remainder still failed of effect, if the particular estate regularly and naturally expired before the contingency happened, upon which the remainder vested. As to contingent remainders created by any instru-ment executed after 2nd August, … and has been supplanted by the modern doctrine of an estate owner with power to alienate the entire fee simple or term of years in the property. 2. An estate cannot be given to an unborn person

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