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Virginia's Drear Aridities: Its Rule Of Perpetuities, D. Orville Lahy
Virginia's Drear Aridities: Its Rule Of Perpetuities, D. Orville Lahy
University of Richmond Law Review
Whereas most Virginia lawyers know about the rule against perpetuities, many of the same lawyers do not know what it is all about. Perpetuities is a dry and dismal subject to an active practitioner, and the state of abject bewilderment with which he was indoctrinated about the rule against perpetuities while in law school lingers on to haunt his memory. for the balance of his professional career. It is not until an actual client appears with a perpetuities problem that the same practitioner is forced to face the stark realities of the rule. It is only then that the complexities …