remainderman

  • 51defeasible — Subject to be defeated, annulled, revoked, or undone upon the happening of a future event or the performance of a condition subsequent, or by a conditional limitation. An estate which is not absolute, i.e., one which is determinable or subject to …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 52defeasibly vested remainder — Gift over to remainderman which, though not subject to condition precedent as in the case of a contingent remainder, is subject to divestment on the happening of a condition subsequent …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 53discretionary trusts — Such as are not marked out on fixed lines, but allow a certain amount of discretion in their exercise. Those which cannot be duly administered without the application of a certain degree of prudence and judgment. Trusts where the trustee or… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 54aid prayer — In English practice, a proceeding formerly made use of, by way of petition in court, praying in aid of the tenant for life, etc., from the reversioner or remainderman, when the title to the inheritance was in question. It was a plea in suspension …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 55cross remainder — Cross remainders are remainders which are so limited after particular estates to two or more persons in several parcels of land, or in several undivided shares in the same parcel of land, that, on the determination of the particular estates in… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 56de ejectione firmae — /diy ajekshiyowniy farmiy/ A writ which lay at the suit of the tenant for years against the lessor, reversioner, remainderman, or stranger who had himself deprived the tenant of the occupation of the land during his term. 3 Bl.Comm. 199. By a… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 57defeasible — Subject to be defeated, annulled, revoked, or undone upon the happening of a future event or the performance of a condition subsequent, or by a conditional limitation. An estate which is not absolute, i.e., one which is determinable or subject to …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 58defeasibly vested remainder — Gift over to remainderman which, though not subject to condition precedent as in the case of a contingent remainder, is subject to divestment on the happening of a condition subsequent …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 59discretionary trusts — Such as are not marked out on fixed lines, but allow a certain amount of discretion in their exercise. Those which cannot be duly administered without the application of a certain degree of prudence and judgment. Trusts where the trustee or… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 60acceleration of estate — The shortening of the time at which a future estate is to vest, as where the precedent estate fails to come into existence, or, having come into existence, terminates prematurely. 28 Am J2d Est § 304. The most familiar case of acceleration is… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary