Contingent Legacy
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A legacy given to a person at a future uncertain time. that may or nay not arrive; as “at his age of twenty-one,” or “if” or “when he attains twenty-one.”
2 Bl. Comm. 513; 2 Steph. Comm. 259.
A legacy made dependent upon some uncertain event.
1 Rop. Leg. 506.
A legacy which has not vested.