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CONTINGENT REMAINDERS ACT 1877

CONTINGENT REMAINDERS ACT 1877 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Law as to Contingent Remainders.{1}
[2nd August 1877]
Cases in which contingent remainders capable of taking effect.

CONTINGENT REMAINDERS ACT 1877 - SECT 1

1. Every contingent remainder created by any instrument executed
after the passing of this Act, or by any will or codicil revived
or republished by any will or codicil executed after that date, in
tenements or hereditaments of any tenure, which would have been
valid as a springing or shifting use or executory devise or other
limitation had it not had a sufficient estate to support it as a
contingent remainder, shall, in the event of the particular estate
determining before the contingent remainder vests, be capable of
taking effect in all respects as if the contingent remainder had
originally been created as a springing or shifting use or executory
devise or other executory limitation.