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Expectant estates
Matched in: Term Expectant estates
estate in expectancy
estate in expectancy see estate … estate in expectancy see estate
Future estates
Matched in: Term 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 The Statute of Uses has been repealed by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925 … of uses:- (1) They were descendible according to the rules of the Common Law relating to the inheritable estates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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