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possibility of reverter

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reverter, possibility of

The interest retained by a grantor after transferring a determinable fee (one that will automatically end on a specified event,such as “to Mary until her thirtieth birthday or marriage,whichever comes first) or an estate in fee simple conditional (available in only some states, it says that a gift to A “and the heirs of his body”retains a possibility of reverter in the grantor because A might never have any heirs of his body).



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22) Courts have been remarkably inconsistent in their treatment of FGROW, holding that some grants conveyed fee simple absolute to the railroads with no retained interest by the federal government, that others conveyed fee simple determinable with an implied possibility of reverter upon abandonment, and that others conveyed an easement.
 
 
 
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