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Categories: Common law rules, Equity (law), Wills and trusts, All articles with unsourced statements, Property law

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The rule against perpetuities is a legal rule in common law that prevents people from using legal instruments to exert control over the ownership of private property for a time long beyond the lives of people living at the time the instrument was written. Wikipedia

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Legal rule prohibiting very long temporary interests in property Wikidata

The rule that prevents a testator or other transferor of property from controlling further transfer of his property more than twenty-one years after the death of anyone alive at the time of the original transfer who may have some interest in the transfer. Wiktionary

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case law

PART OF

common law

MAIN SUBJECT

future interest

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