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MAY, 1901. No. 5. VESTED AND CONTINGENT REMAINDERS. IN N the course of the able and successful work accom. plished by the framers of the revision of 1830, they drafted one section1 relating to future estates, which has been, for many years, the source of considerable confusion. It will be remembered that Blackstone defines vested and contingent remainders as follows: Vested remainders exist "where the estate is invariably fixed to remain to a determinate person, after the particular estate is spent;" contingent remainders exist "where the estate in remainder is limited to take effect, either to a dubious and uncertain person, or upon a dubious and uncertain event."* Other common law writers gave definitions varying somewhat from these in form, but those just quoted furnish a convenient, and, at least for present purposes, a correct, statement of the law. To render a remainder vested, therefore (either absolutely or subject to being wholly or in part divested, according to the nature of the given case), the event upon which the remainder was limited to take effect must not be dubious or uncertain in the sense intended by the definition, and the person to whom the future estate is fixed to remain must be "determinate," and as a general proposition this necessary determinateness could only be achieved by designating him, in the instrument creating the remain 1 R. S. 723, § 13; Real Prop. Law, § 30. 2 2 Comm. 168, 169. |