| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1862 - 888 oldal
...happen or be performed, or not till after tho determination of the preceding estate ; or, to use tlio definition of the New York statute, which Chancellor...remainder is contingent while the person to whom or tho event upon which it is limited to take effect remains uncertain. An example of a remainder contingent... | |
| Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1864 - 1548 oldal
...the children, their heirs, &c. but to the children, to be had and holdtn by them, their heirs, &c. " A remainder is contingent while the person to whom,...it is limited to take effect, remains uncertain." The two classes of contingency are in the present case united. The uncertainty of the event made the... | |
| James Kent - 1866 - 786 oldal
...Statutes, vol. i. 723, sec. 18, is brief and precise. A remainder, says the statute, is contingent, whilst the person to whom, or the event upon which it is limited to take effect, remains uncertain. Contingent remainders are * There is a distinction which operates by way of excep- * 209 tion to the... | |
| 1872 - 438 oldal
...otherwise than as allowed by the ruto against perpetuities. A future estate is a contingent interest while the person to whom, or the event upon which, it is limited to take effect remains uncertain. Such an interest in itself, during the period of uncertainty, necessarily suspends the power of alienation,... | |
| Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1870 - 728 oldal
...then her heirs at law. And such is the construction which we adopt. " A remainder is contingent whilst the person to whom or the event upon which it is limited to take effect remains uncertain." 4 Kent Com. (6th ed.) 208, note. The present case is Fearne's fourth, or Blackstone's second, class... | |
| 1880 - 554 oldal
...Statutes, vol. I, 723, § 13, is brief and precise. A remainder, says the statute, is contingent whilst the person to whom, or the event upon which it is limited to take effect, remains uncertain. 2 Kent, 208, note. Blaokstone divides contingent remainders into two kinds: " When the estate in 'remainder... | |
| William Blackstone - 1872 - 776 oldal
...immediate right to possession upon the ceasing of the precedent estate. It is a contingent remainder if the person to whom, or the event upon which it is limited, is uncertain. A reversion is the residue of an estate left in the grantor, or in the heirs of a testator,... | |
| James Kent - 1873 - 680 oldal
...Statutes, i. 723, sec. 13, if brief and precise. A remainder, says the statute, is contingent, whilst the person to whom, or the event upon which it is limited to take effect, remains uncertain. Contingent remainders are divided by Sir William Blackstone into two kinds, viz. : remainders limited... | |
| William Blackstone - 1876 - 782 oldal
...immediate right to possession upon the ceasing of the précèdent estate. It is a contingent remainder if the person to whom, or the event upon which it is limited, is uncertain. A reversion is the residue of an estate left in the grantor, or in the heirs of a testator,... | |
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