| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 768 pages
...words of the will, but that the testatrix did create the estate above indicated. Chancellor Kent says: "An estate is vested when there is an immediate right...enjoyment or a present fixed right of future enjoyment. It gives a legal or equitable seisin. The definition of a vested remainder in the New York revised statutes... | |
| Jacob D. Wheeler - Common law - 1836 - 644 pages
...uncertain which of them will survive. 1. (B) VESTED REMAINDERS. 1. 4 Kent's Comra. p. 202. Dtfinition* An estate is vested when there is an immediate right of present enjoyment, or a piesent right of future enjoyment. Asa grant of an estate to A. for life, with remainder to B. in fee,... | |
| James Kent - Law - 1848 - 798 pages
...the estate together. (II.) Of rested remainders. Remainders are of two sorts, vested and contingent. An estate is vested when there is an immediate right...enjoyment, or a present fixed right of future enjoyment. It gives a legal or equitable seisin.b The definition of a vested remainder in the Neu)- York Rerised... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1862 - 888 pages
...before B have a son, then the remainder fails. — Remainders are either vested or contingent. They are vested when there is an immediate right of present...enjoyment, or a present fixed right of future enjoyment, it being the present capacity of taking effect in possession if tie possession were to become vacant,... | |
| Marcus Tullius Hun - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 856 pages
...the event upon which they are limited to take effect, remains uncertain.* Chancellor KENT says : " An estate is vested when there is an immediate right...enjoyment, or a present fixed right of future enjoyment." f I think that the will of the testatrix gave an estate to the children last named in the same, which... | |
| Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - Law - 1875 - 966 pages
...living, and («) Fearne on Conting. Rem. 216. (302) " Remainders are of two sorts, vested and contingent. An estate is vested when there is an immediate right...enjoyment, or a present fixed right of future enjoyment. It gives a legal or equitable seisin." 4 Kent's Com. 202. The broad distinction Contingent remainders,... | |
| Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 674 pages
...Jane Owen who were or are living at the time of distribution can participate in the fund or estate. An estate is vested when there is an immediate right...enjoyment, or a present fixed right of future enjoyment. It gives a legal or equitable seizin. A vested remainder is a fixed interest to take effect in possession... | |
| Joel Prentiss Bishop - Women - 1875 - 796 pages
...of valuable interests which are not vested. " An estate is vested," says this same learned writer, " when there is an immediate right of present enjoyment, or a present fixed right of future enjoyment." l § 39. Continued — Authorities controlling the Present Discussion. — But most of the questions... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1883 - 942 pages
...before В have a son, then the remainder fails. — Remainders are either vested or contingent. They are vested when there is an immediate right of present...enjoyment, or a present fixed right of future enjoyment, it being the present capacity of taking effect in possession if the possession were to become vacant,... | |
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