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CONDITIONAL See also:LIMITATION , in See also:law, a phrase used in two senses. (1) The qualification annexed to the See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of an See also:estate or See also:interest in See also:land, providing for the determination of that grant or interest upon a particular contingency happening. An estate with such a limitation can endure only until the particular contingency happens; it is a See also:present interest, to be divested on a future contingency. The grant of an estate to a See also:man so See also:long as he is See also:parson of See also:Dale, or while he continues unmarried, are instances of conditional limitations of estates for See also:life. (2) A future use or interest in land limited to take effect upon a given contingency. For instance, a grant to X. and his heirs to the use of A., provided that when C. returns from See also:Rome the land shall go to the use of B. in See also:fee See also:simple. B. is said to take under a conditional limitation, operating by executory devise or springing or shifting use (see See also:REMAINDER, REVERSION).
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