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wait and see

wait and see : a doctrine in property law that postpones determining the question of validity of a future interest that has not yet vested (as a contingent remainder) until circumstances make clear whether or not the

word of limitation

as words of limitation describing an estate in fee simple rather than as words of purchase giving a future interest in the estate to his heirs] compare word of purchase

worthier title

living persons) to an heir. When a grantor makes an inter vivos conveyance of property followed by a future estate to his or her heirs, the conveyance is deemed to create a reversion in the grantor rather

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Belomancy

at random from a bag or quiver the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future

Bespeak

To speak or arrange for beforehand to order or engage against a future time as to bespeak goods a right or a favor

Bibliomancy

A kind of divination performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard and drawing from them indications concerning future events

Genethliacs

The science of calculating nativities or predicting the future events of life from the stars which preside at birth

Bode

To indicate by signs as future events to be the omen of to portend to presage to foreshow

Bud

A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant containing the rudiments of future leaves flowers or stems an undeveloped branch or flower

Damned

Sentenced to punishment in a future state condemned consigned to perdition

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