Conditional

Dependent upon condition; as, a conditional contract, deed, liability, obligation, etc. Conditional fee: a fee restrained to some particular heirs exclusive of others. Conditional limitation; a species of limitation of an estate, partaking of the nature of a condition; a limitation under the statute of uses to a third person on the happening of a certain event, thus cutting short the prior estate in the grantea v. Estate upon condition; Limitation of Estate, In the civil law. Conditional creditor: a creditor having a future right of action, or having a right of action in expectancy. Conditional stipulation: a stipulation to do a thing upon condition, as upon the happening of any event Conditionem testinm tunc inspicere debemus cum signarent, non mortis tempore, I. We ought to consider the competency of the witnesses at the time when they subscribed, not at the [testator's] death.