Lambdin v. LAMBDIN’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “... The power of a court of equity on a plenary bill, with adversary interest properly represented, to sell contingent remainders in land, under some circumstances, though the contingent remaindermen are not then ascertained or in being, as, for instance, to preserve the estate from complete or partial destruction, is well established.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Baker v. Weedon