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rule against perpetuities

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  • noun law, singular only The rule that prevents a testator or other transferor of property from controlling further transfer of his property more than twenty-one years after the death of anyone alive at the time of the original transfer who may have some interest in the transfer.
  • noun law, countable, by extension Any rule that prevents a testator or other transferor of property from controlling further transfer of his property beyond a certain length of time.

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