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Terms Used In Iowa Code 557.7

  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Rule: includes "regulation". See Iowa Code 4.1
557.7 Contingent remainders.
A contingent remainder shall take effect, notwithstanding any determination of the particular estate, in the same manner in which it would have taken effect if it had been an executory devise or a springing or shifting use, and shall, as well as such limitations, be subject to the rule respecting remoteness known as the rule against perpetuities, exclusive of any other supposed rule respecting limitations to successive generations or double possibilities.
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10046; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §557.7]
Referred to in §557.8