rule against possibility on a possibility
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The rule of the common law that in the grant or devise of property there could not be a possibility on a possibility, and which applied to prevent a limitation for the life of an unborn person with a limitation after his death to his unborn children to take as purchasers. 41 Am J1st Perp § 5.
Ballentine's law dictionary.
Anderson, W.S..
1998.
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