An interest in real property that will occur at a specified time or when a specified event occurs, e.g. an interest to arise upon the death of another person. … [Read more...]

estates. One to arise on a future event, when no preceding estate is limited, and does not take effect in derogation of any preceding interest. Example: a grant is made to A in fee, to the use of B in fee, after the fourth of July; no use arises till the limited period. The use in the mean time results to the grantor, who has a determinable fee. A springing use differs from a … [Read more...]

Those profits which a bishop receives in his ecclesiastical character, as the dues arising from his ordaining and instituting priests, and such like, In contradistinction to those profits which he acquires in his temporal capacity as a baron and lord of parliament, and which are termed his "temporalities," consisting of certain lands, revenues, and lay fees, etc. Cowell. … [Read more...]

In international law. Agreements or engagements made by certain public officers (as generals or admirals In time of war) in behalf of their governments, either without authority or in excess of the authority under which they purport to be made, and which therefore require an express or tacit ratification. … [Read more...]

In ecclesiastical law. The tithes of land, etc Wharton. … [Read more...]