Future Estate
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
An estate which is to commence in possession in the future (infuturo). It includes remainders, reversions, and estates limited to commence in futuro without a particular estate to support them, which last are not good at common law except in the case of terms for years.
See 2 Bla. Com. 165.
In New York law it has been defined “an estate limited to commence in possession at a future day, either without the intervention of a precedent estate, or on the determination by lapse of time, or otherwise, of a precedent estate created at the same time,” thus excluding reversions, which cannot be said to be created at the same time, because they are a remnant of the orig- St Mich. $ 6526; Gen. St. Minn. 1878, c.
45, § 10; L’Etourneau v. Henquenet 89 Mich. 428, 60 N. W. 1077, 28 Am. St Rep. 310.