inchoate interest
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 271 U.S. 176 - Taylor v. Voss · 1926Most cited · 370 citing opinions
The statute creates no estate in the wife during her husband's lifetime, but merely an inchoate and contingent interest, which depends upon her survivorship and is extinguished if she dies before him
How often courts cite the case defining “inchoate interest”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “inchoate interest” — 367 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.