Remainder in Europe
Definition of Remainder
A remnant of an estate in lands or tenements, expectant upon a particular estate created together with the same at one time (Co. Litt. 93A). Thus if A, a tenant in fee-simple, grants land to B for life, and after B’s decease to C and his heirs, C’s interest is termed a remainder in fee expectant on the decease of B. No tenure exists between the particular tenant (B) and the remainderman (C).
A vested remainder as opposed to a contingent remainder (q.v.) is one ready to come into possession the moment the prior estate determines (as in the above example).
After 1925, remainders can only be created and subsist as equitable interests. (Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 4.)
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