CONTINGENT INTEREST IN PERSONAL PROPERTY - Black's Law Dictionary

What is CONTINGENT INTEREST IN PERSONAL PROPERTY? Definition of CONTINGENT INTEREST IN PERSONAL PROPERTY in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.

A future interest not transmissible to the representatives of the party entitled thereto, in case  he dies before it vests  in possession. Mozley  & Whitley.

Thus, if a testator leaves the income of a fund  to his wife for life, and the capital  of the fund to be distributed among such of his children as shall be living at her death, the interest of each child during  the widow's lifetime is contingent, and in case of his death is not transmissible  to his representatives. Mozley & Whitley.

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