Possibility
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
An uncertain event, a contingency. Possibility coupled ■with an interest: an expectation recognized in law as an estate or interest; as where the person who is to take an estate on the happening of the contingency is named or ascertained; not a bare possibility, as the expectation of an heir apparent. Possibility on a possibility: a double contingency, as an estate limited to a man's unborn son John; it is bad in law. Possibility of reverter: the estate of the grantor of an estate upon condition.