inchoate interest
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Case Law, Black's (1910)
Definitions from Case Law
From 271 U.S. 176 - Taylor v. Voss · 1926Most cited · 370 citing opinions
The statute creates no estate in the wife during her husband's lifetime, but merely an inchoate and contingent interest, which depends upon her survivorship and is extinguished if she dies before him
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
An interest in real estate which is not a present interest, but which may ripen into a vested estate, if not barred; extinguished, or divested. Rupe v. Hadley, 113 Ind. 416, 16 N. E. 391; Bever v. North, 107 Ind. 547, 8 N. E. 576; Warford v. Noble (C. C.) 2 Fed. 204.
Defined under Inchoate in Black's Law Dictionary.