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Expectant estates

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estate in expectancy

estate in expectancy see estateestate in expectancy see estate

Future estates

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Possibility

Possibility, expectation, an uncertain thing which may or may not happen. It is either near, or ordinary, as where an … an uncertain thing which may or may not happen. It is either near, or ordinary, as where an estate is limited to one after the death of another; or remote, or extraordinary, as where it is limited

Merger

Merger [fr. mergo, Lat., to sink], an annihilation, by act of law, of a particular in an expectant estate consequent upon their union in the same person without an intervening estate in another person--thus accelerating into … subject itself out of which it is derived. 'In order that there may be a merger, the two estates which are supposed to coalesce must be vested in the same person at the same time and in

Shelley's case, Rule in

a remainder in tail male general, and is not in contingency or abeyance, nevertheless waiting for, and continuing expectant on, the determination of B.'s life-estate, which is expectant of A.'s death; but after A.'s death, and the … two above-stated examples, it certainly contradicts the meaning of the assurance, and the intent of the parties. two estates are created, a particular estate in the ancestor, and a remainder in his heirs. In the absence of

Tail

the protector is to grant or withhold his consent, which is required to enable a tenant-in-tail in remainder, expectant on an estate of free-hold, to bar as well his own issue as also those in remainder, to … after 1925, dispose of the whole estate by will either expressly or by general reference to his entailed estates, and in that case it passes to his personal representatives and is liable for his debts. (4) It

Uses

estate, upon a certain condition, could be effected by a conveyance to uses, so as to accelerate the expectant estate into possession. The Statute of Uses has been repealed by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925 … of uses:- (1) They were descendible according to the rules of the Common Law relating to the inheritable estates of intestates: and the special customs of gavelkind, borough-English, and copyholds, determined the particular descent of uses. This

Recovery

in possession enlarged his estate-tail into a fee-simple and so barred the entail, and all remainders and reversions expectant there-on, with all conditions and collateral limitations annexed to them, and subsequent charges sub-ordinate to the entail. But … by matter of record, in fraud of the statute De Donis, whereby a tenant-in-tail in possession enlarged his estate-tail into a fee-simple and so barred the entail, and all remainders and reversions expectant there-on, with all conditions

Vested remainder

Vested remainder, an expectant estate, which is limited or transmitted to a person who is capable of receiving the possession, should the … Vested remainder, an expectant estate, which is limited or transmitted to a person who is capable of receiving the possession, should the particular

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