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Cross Remainder

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Where a particular estate is conveyed to several persons in common, and, upon the termination of the interest of either of them, his share is to remain over to the rest, and the reversioner or remainder man is not to take till the termination of all the estates, the parties take as tenants in common, vsrith cross remainders between them.

4 Cruise, Dig. 249; 1 Hilliard, Real Prop. 650.

It is not an essential quality of cross remainders that the original estates should be held in common.

1 Prest. Est. 94; 2 Washb. Real Prop. Index.