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Record 1 2013-05-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

The rule against double possibilities was a rule which appears to have been first suggested in the Rector of Chedington's Case in 1598, when Popham C.J. said that a lease was void because "it could not commence upon a contingent which depended upon another contingent". The principle seems to have been that a limitation which depended upon more than one possibility was void. (Megarry and Wade, p. 202)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

règle d'interdiction des doubles possibilités : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

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