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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 estate is limited to one after the death of another; or remote, or extraordinary, as where...

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The quality or state of being possible the power of happening being or existing

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Possibility on a possibility

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...

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...

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

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...

Double possibility

Double possibility. Before 1926 it was supposed [see Whitby v. Mitchell, (1890) 44 Ch D 85] that a limitation in remainder after a life interest to an unborn person of an interest in land to the...

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

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

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