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n.A potential future interest in property.
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
inchoate interest
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Inchoate Interest — Interests, generally property interests, that are likely to vest but have not yet actually done so. The inchoate interest usually is dependent on an event occurring that triggers the interest, such as a relative s death triggering an inheritance … Investment dictionary
inchoate interest — An interest in real estate which is not a present interest, but which may ripen into a vested estate, if not barred, extinguished, or divested … Black's law dictionary
inchoate interest — An interest in real estate which is not a present interest, but which may ripen into a vested estate, if not barred, extinguished, or divested … Black's law dictionary
inchoate — in·cho·ate /in kō ət, iŋ kō ˌāt/ adj 1 a: not yet made complete, certain, or specific: not perfected see also inchoate lien at lien b: not yet transformed into actual use or possession until an emplo … Law dictionary
inchoate curtesy — A term variously defined as the right of the husband akin to the inchoate right of dower of the wife; the right of the husband in a jurisdiction in which the husband s right of curtesy is by statute the same as the right of dower, such right… … Ballentine's law dictionary
inchoate dower — A wife s interest in the lands of her husband during his life, which may become a right of dower upon his death. A contingent claim or possibility of acquiring dower by outliving husband and arises, not out of contract, but as an institution of… … Black's law dictionary
inchoate dower — A wife s interest in the lands of her husband during his life, which may become a right of dower upon his death. A contingent claim or possibility of acquiring dower by outliving husband and arises, not out of contract, but as an institution of… … Black's law dictionary
inchoate right — A rudimentary interest … Ballentine's law dictionary
inchoate right of dower — The right, or expectation of a future right, that a wife has in real estate, of which her husband has become seized, while he is still living, such right becoming consummate as her dower if he dies leaving her surviving and she has not previously … Ballentine's law dictionary
Choate (law) — Choate , as used in American law, means completed or perfected in and of itself, [1] or perfected, complete, or certain. [2] It is a controversial word due to its etymology as a back formation from the old and well established word inchoate that… … Wikipedia
