Contingent Use
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A use limited In a deed or conveyance of land which may or may not happen to vest, according to the contingency expressed in the limitation of such use. Such a use as by possibility may happen in possession, reversion, or remainder.
1 Coke, 121; Comyn, Dig. "Uses" (K 6).
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 had between them.
2 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 234.
A contingent remainder limited by way of uses.
Sugd. Uses, 175. See, also, 4 Kent, Comm. 237 et seq.