Speakur

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rule against perpetuities

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.44 in modern English

Syllables
rule a-gain-st per-pe-tu-ities
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The rule that prevents a testator or other transferor of property from controlling further transfer of his property more than twenty-one years after the death of anyone alive at the time of the original transfer who may have some interest in the transfer.

noun

Any rule that prevents a testator or other transferor of property from controlling further transfer of his property beyond a certain length of time.

Countable

Usage

Inflected Forms

rules against perpetuities (plural)

Questions

What does rule against perpetuities mean?
The rule that prevents a testator or other transferor of property from controlling further transfer of his property more than twenty-one years after the death of anyone alive at the time of the original transfer who may have some interest in the transfer.

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