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optimum

Best possible or most desirable usually under a restriction expressed or implied as an optimum return on capital optimum concentration

pits

The worst possible situation person or thing something extremely bad boring or depressing always used with the as cleaning the house

Practicable

Practicable, means possible, R(Q) v. Home Secretary (CA), 2004 LR 36 QB.

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Contingent

Possible or liable but not certain to occur incidental casual

impossible

impossible : not possible : incapable of being done, attained, or fulfilled [a party's performance is in part]

Impossible

Not possible incapable of being done of existing etc unattainable in the nature of things or by means at command

Tail

upon the death of the tenant-in-tail. after 1925 a devise by a tenant-in-tail in possession (but not after possibility of issue extinct and other exceptions) of the estate tail operates as a bar of the entail and

Property

Gyanoday Sugar Ltd. v. State of Bihar, AIR 2003 SC 3436. Property, in indicative and descriptive of every possible interest which a party can have, State of Manipur v. Nongthombam Ambu Singh, AIR 1957 Manipur 1. Property,

reverter

from Old French revertir to return, revert, from Latin revertere to turn back] 1 : reversion 2 : possibility of reverter NOTE: Although reversion and possibility of reverter or reverter are sometimes used synonymously, many authorities disapprove

Perpetuity

partial interest, positively and necessarily to vest within the period prescribed, and not to depend upon a mere possibility. Moreover, not only the person to take, but also the precise amount of his interest, must be ascertained

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