Expectant Heir
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
An expectant heir, in the language of equity, is a person who has a reversionary right or hope or succession to property. Where he has but little or n6 property immediately available, and is exposed to the temptation of selling or mortgaging his right or expectation on unreasonable terms (e. g., for much below its the court against the enforcement of such "catching bargains," as they are called.