Jolly v. Hobbs’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “The earliest vesting of the remainder is favored by the law, as it prevents its liability to destruction by the immediate tenant; and when in doubt, it will be held to be vested, rather than contingent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Baldwin v. Branch