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Possibility on a possibility. Lord Coke lays it down as a rule that the event on which a remainder is to depend must be a common possibility, and not a double possibility, or a possibility on a possibility, which the law will not allow. Thus he tells us that the chance that a man and a woman, both married to different persons, shall themselves marry one another is but a common possibility. But the chance that a married man shall have a son named Geoffrey is stated to be a double or remote possibility; see Williams on Real Property; 2 Rep. 51 a; 10 Rep. 50 b; Co. Litt. 184 a. The idea that there cannot be a possibility and a possibility seems to have been a conceit invented by Popham, C.J., but it was never really intelligible, Whitby v. Mitchell, (1890) 44 Ch D p. 92, per Lindley, LJ, and never applied to trusts of personal estate [Re Bowles, (1902) 2 Ch 650]. It gave rise, however, to the rule, now well settled in regard to limitations and trusts of realty created by instruments comin...
Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in
Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in. This estate arises out of a special entail as to the parentage of the issue, when the express condition has become impossible by reason of death. Thus, if an estate be granted to husband and wife, and their issue, male or female, if either of them die without issue, the survivor is tenant-in-tail after possibility of issue extinct; and even if there have been issue, yet if the issue die without issue, then the surviving parent is also such a tenant; and also if an estate be entailed upon a man and his issue from a particular wife, if she die without issue, the interest of the husband becomes reduced to a tenancy-in-tail after possibility of issue extinct. Only a donee in tail-special can become such a tenant, for if the entail be general, such a tenancy can never arise; for whilst he lives he may have issue, the law not admitting the impossibility of having children at any age. As an estate-tail is originally carved out of a fee-simpl...
Possibly
In a possible manner by possible means especially by extreme remote or improbable intervention change or exercise of power by a chance perhaps as possibly he may recover...
Possibility
Possibility, expectation, 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 to a man, provided he marries a certain woman, and that she shall die and he shall marry another. See next title.A possibility coupled with an interest in any tene-ments or hereditaments, of any tenure, whether the object of the gift or limitation of such possibility be or be not ascertained, may be disposed of by deed. [(English) Real Property Act, 1845, s. 6, reproduced by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 4(2)]...
Possible
Capable of existing or occurring or of being conceived or thought of able to happen capable of being done not contrary to the nature of things sometimes used to express extreme improbability barely able to be or to come to pass as possibly he is honest as it is possible that Judas meant no wrong...
As for as possible
As for as possible, words 'as for as possible' occurring in letters patent (Rules), cl. 37 are merely directory and consequently a rule framed by High Court thereunder if inconsistent with the provisions of CPC, would prevail over the letter, Iridium India Telecom Ltd. v. Motorola Inc., (2005) 2 SCC 145....
Continuance or possible recurrence of which is pre-judicial to the health or safety of the public
Continuance or possible recurrence of which is pre-judicial to the health or safety of the public, If it appears to a coroner, either before he proceeds to hold an inquest or in the course of an inquest begun without a jury, that there is a reason to suspect....(d) that the death occurred in circum-stances the continuance or possible recurrence of which is pre judicial to the health or safety of the public or any section or the public, he shall proceed to summon a jury in the manner required by sub-s. (2), R (Takoushis) v. Inner North London Coroner (CA), (2006) 1 WLR 461 [Coroners Act, 1988 (C 13), s. 8(3)(d)]...
possibility of reverter
possibility of reverter :a future interest in property that is retained by the grantor of a conditional fee or determinable fee and by which property reverts to the grantor upon the occurrence of a particular event or fulfillment of a particular condition compare reversion ...
Possibility
The quality or state of being possible the power of happening being or existing...
As far as possible
As far as possible, these words are not prohibitory in nature, they rather connote a discretion vested in the prescribed authority which can exercise that discretion at the time of carving the surplus area from out of the total holding of a person, Rajendra Singh v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (1998) 7 SCC 654 (658). [U.P. Imposition of ceiling on land Holdings Act, 1960 (1 of 1961)]...
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