John Chipman Gray, Future Interests in Personal Property, 14 Harvard Law Review 397 (1901). Future interests are at once docile creatures which accommodate all sorts of human and social objectives and beastly difficult abstractions which drive us to tears. Breaking property into smaller bits along temporal lines – such is the basic idea of present interests and future interests. Typically, we think of future interests (remainders, reversions, and the like) in the context of real property. In 1901, John Chipman Gray (1839-1915) published a 23-page essay in the Harvard Law Review titled Future Interests in Personal Property …” (more)
[Tom E Simmons, JOTWELL, 10 February]
First posted 2017-02-10 14:03:11
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