contingent bequest

contingent bequest
A legacy which is intended by the testator to vest only in the event and upon condition of the happening of a contingency named therein. If the time of payment merely be postponed, and it appears to be the intention of the testator that his bounty should immediately attach, the legacy is of the vested kind; but if the time be annexed to the substance of the gift, as a condition precedent, it is contingent, and not transmissible. Furness v Fox, 55 Mass 1 Cush 134; Magoffin v Patton (Pa) 4 Rawle 113, 116. See conditional legacy or devise.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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