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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.