Legal dictionary
Rule against perpetuities
The principle that no interest is valid unless it vests in a person not later than twenty one years (plus any period of gestation for an unborn child) after the life of the person that existed at the time of the creation of the interest. The rule was introduced to restrict a person’s power to control perpetually the ownership and possession of his or her property after death and to ensure transferability of property.
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