This is an alternate beneficiary that is named in a will, trust document, insurance policy and the like based upon a contingency. For example, a son will obtain the proceeds of an estate and, if he is not alive or is unavailable, his children will receive the proceeds. … [Read more...]

In pleading. A form of allegation in which the trespass, criminal offense, or other wrongful act complained of is charged to have been committed on a specified day and to have "continued" to the present time, or is averred to have been committed at divers days and times within a given period or on a specified day and on divers other days and times between that day and another. … [Read more...]

One which has not accrued and which is dependent on the happening of some future event. … [Read more...]

Enduring; not terminal ed by a single act or fact; subsisting for a definite period or intended to cover or apply to successive similar obligations or occurrences. As to continuing "Consideration," "Covenant," "Damages," "Guaranty," "Nuisance," and "Offense," see those titles. … [Read more...]

Lat. Contemporaneous exposition, or construction; a construction drawn from the time when, and the circumstances under which, the subject matter to be construed, as a statute or custom, originated. Contemporanea expositio est optima ot fortissima in logo. Contemporaneous exposition is the best and strongest in the law. 2 Inst 11. A statute is best explained by following the … [Read more...]