Contingent Legacy
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
A legacy given to a person at a future uncertain time, that may or may not arrive; as "at his age of twenty-one," or "if," or "when he attains twenty-one."
2 Bl. Com. 513. 2 Steph. Com. 259. Ward on Legacies, 172.