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The Rule Against Perpetuities And The Generation-Skipping Tax: Do We Need Both, Leonard Levin, Michael Mulroney Jan 1990

The Rule Against Perpetuities And The Generation-Skipping Tax: Do We Need Both, Leonard Levin, Michael Mulroney

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Perpetuities: Cy Pres On The March, W. Barton Leach Oct 1964

Perpetuities: Cy Pres On The March, W. Barton Leach

Vanderbilt Law Review

The standard doctrine has been that where an interest may vest too remotely the entire interest is stricken down; and this destructiveness is multiplied by the all-or-nothing rule of Leake v. Robinson which declares that the invalidity of a gift to any member of a class invalidates the gifts of all other members. It is the thesis of this paper that the penalty for violation of the Rule--a penalty inflicted, not on the violator, but on his or her intended beneficiaries, usually minors or unborns--should be, not the invalidation of the future interest, but rather a tailoring of the interest …


Raising The Perpetuities Question: Conception, Adoption, "Wait And See," And Cy Pres, Robert J. Lynn Oct 1964

Raising The Perpetuities Question: Conception, Adoption, "Wait And See," And Cy Pres, Robert J. Lynn

Vanderbilt Law Review

Applying the orthodox, the "wait and see," or the cy pres version of the Rule Against Perpetuities presupposes analyzing the limitations in the dispositive instrument as of the time of their creation to determine whether any gifts are future, whether any future gifts are remainders or executory interests, and whether any remainders or executory interests are contingent. If a contingent future interest might vest, if it vests at all, at a remote time, it is bad ab initio under the orthodox form of the Rule. That being so, the perpetuities question may properly be raised at the time the contingent …


Effect Of Power Of Revocation Vesting Subsequent To Execution Of Deed Of Trust On Measuring Period Of Perpetuities, Robert E. Powell Jan 1960

Effect Of Power Of Revocation Vesting Subsequent To Execution Of Deed Of Trust On Measuring Period Of Perpetuities, Robert E. Powell

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Kentucky Perpetuities Law Restated And Reformed, Jesse Dukeminier Jr. Jan 1960

Kentucky Perpetuities Law Restated And Reformed, Jesse Dukeminier Jr.

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Abstracts Of Recent Cases, J. E. J. Feb 1958

Abstracts Of Recent Cases, J. E. J.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


An Attack On The "Twenty-One Year Rule", S. Raymond Dunn Jan 1958

An Attack On The "Twenty-One Year Rule", S. Raymond Dunn

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Possibility Of Reverter And The Rule Against Perpetuities In Kentucky, William C. Brafford Jr. Jan 1957

Possibility Of Reverter And The Rule Against Perpetuities In Kentucky, William C. Brafford Jr.

Kentucky Law Journal

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Future Interests--Rule Against Perpetuities Applied To Options In Favor Of Grantor To Purchase Back The Land Conveyed--Maddox V. Keeler, Scott Reed Jan 1945

Future Interests--Rule Against Perpetuities Applied To Options In Favor Of Grantor To Purchase Back The Land Conveyed--Maddox V. Keeler, Scott Reed

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.