Contingent Estate
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A Contingent estate depends for its effect upon an event which may or may not happen; as, an estate limited to a person not in esse, or not yet born. Crabb, Real Prop. § 946. Distinguished from vested, see "Vested in Interest."
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A contingent estate depends for its effect upon an event which may or may not happen: as, an estate limited to a person not in esse, or not yet born. Crabb, It. P. § 916.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
An estate which depends for its effect upon an event which may or may not happen; as an estate limited to a person not in esse, or not yet bom. 2 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 4, § 946; Haywood v. Shreve, 44 N. J. Law, 94; Wadsworth v. Murray, 29 App. Div. 191, 51 N. Y. Supp. 1038; Thornton v. Zea, 22 Tex. Civ. App. 509, 55 S. W. 798; Hopkins v. Hopkins, 1 Hun, 354.
Defined under Contingent in Black's Law Dictionary.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
An estate which depends for its effect upon an event which may or may not happen; as an estate limited to a person not in esse, or not yet born. 2 Crabb's Real Prop. 4, § 946.