Possibility
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
is an uncertain thing which may or may not happen, Lilly’s Reg. h. t.; or it is a contingent interest in real or personal estate.
1 Madd. Ch. 549.
Possibilities are near, as when an estate is limited to one after the death of another; or remote, as that one man shall be married to a woman, and then that she shall die, and he be married to another.
1 Fonb. Eq. 212, n. (e); 16 Vin. Ab. h. t., p. 460; 2Co. 51 a.