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Contingent Use

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

A use limited to take effect upon the happening of some future contingent event; as where lands are conveyed to the use of A. and B., after a marriage shall be had between them.

2 Bl, Com, 834.

Otherwise called a future use, and sometimes, though inaccurately, a springing use.

Gilbert on Uses, (by Sugden,) cited 2 Chilly s Bl, Com, 334, note.

These are properly uses to take effect as remainders. Id, ibid.

See 1 Co, 120; Chudleigh*s case, 1 Anderson, 309. 4 Kent's Com, 237—247. 1 Hilliard's Real Prop. 623.

See Scintilla juris,