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Possibility on a possibility
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 … 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 … 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;
Perpetuity
his descendants (41 Geo. 3, c. 59; 42 Geo. 3, c. 113; and 54 Geo. 3, c. 171). See also as to the effect of an Act of Parliament, Manchester Ship Canal Co. v. Manchester Racecourse Co., … for the creation of future estates and interests, Walsh v. Secretary of State for India, (1863) 10 HLC 367. Perpetuity, unlimited duration; exemption from intermission … was another and independent rule, commonly known as the rule against double possibilities, or the rule in Whitby v. Mitchell, (1890) 44 Ch D 85, viz., that after an estate has been limited to an unborn person for
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