Shifting Clause
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A shifting clause in a settlement is a clause by which some other mode of devolution is substituted for that primarily prescribed. Examples of shifting clauses are: The ordinary name and arms clause, and the clause of less frequent occurrence, by which a settled estate is destined as the foundation of a second family, in the event of the elder branch becoming otherwise enriched.
3 Dav. Conv. 273.
These shifting clauses take effect under the statute of uses.