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Estate Upon Condition

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

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

An estate in lands, the existence of which depends upon the happening or not happening of some uncertain event, whereby the estate may be either originally created, or enlarged, or finally defeated.

2 BL Com. 161. 1 SUph. Com. 276. Co. Litt 201 a.

LiiL sect.

323, 326.

Cruise Dig. tit. xiii.

An estate having a qualification annexed to it

by which it may, upon the happening of a particular event, be created or enlarged or destroyed.

4 Kent's Com. 121.

ESTATE UPON CONDITION IM-