Possibility
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
An uncertain thing, which may or may not happen; such, for instance, as the chance of an heir apparent succeeding to an estate, or of a relation obtaining a legacy on the death of a kinsman. A possibility is said to be either near or remote, according to the degree of probability; examples given in the books are, that when an estate is limited to one after the death of another, this is a near possibility; but that a man shall be married to a woman and then that she shall die, and he be married to another, this is a remote possibility. These two kinds are also called, in Cholmley's case, 2 Coke, 51, where the doctrine of possibilities is much discussed, common and remote. They are also called ordinary and extraordinary possibilities. And a possibility is called bare when it is not coupled with any interest.
Wharton.
A possibility founded on a trust differs from a mere possibility: the first may be devised, the other not.
Tomlins.