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ESTATE IN REMAINDER Definition & Legal Meaning

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An estate limited to take effect in possession, or inenjoyment, or in both, subject only to any term of years or contingent interest that mayIntervene, immediately after the regular expiration of a particular estate of freeholdpreviously created together with it, by the same instrument, out of the same subject ofproperty. 2 Fearne. Rem.

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