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VESTED REMAINDER

(A) The unconditional right of a person to receive real property at some point in the future (as the remainder person) when a person dies. (B) estates. One by which a present interest passes to the party, though to be enjoyed in future, and by which the estate is invariably fixed to remain to a determinate person, after the particular estate has been spent. By this phrase is meant all things, trees excepted, which grow upon the surface of the land, and clothe it externally. 2. He who has the vesture of land has a right, generally, to exclude others from entering upon the superficies of the soil.

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