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 168 3. rule repecting remainders is this; that the remainder mut vet in the grantee during the continuance of the particular etate, or eo intanti that it determines. As, if A be tenant for life, remainder to B in tail; here B's remainder is veted in him, at the creation of the particular etate to A for life: or, if A and B be tenants for their joint lives, remainder to the urvivor in fee; here, though during their joint lives the remainder is veted in neither, yet on the death of either of them, the remainder vets intantly in the urvivor: wherefore both thee are good remainders. But, if an etate be limited to A for life, remainder to the eldet on of B in tail, and A dies before B hath any on; here the remainder will be void, for it did not vet in any one during the continuance, nor at the determination, of the particular etate: and, even uppoing that B hould afterwards have a on, he hall not take by this remainder; for, as it did not vet at or before the end of the particular etate, it never can vet at all, but is gone for ever. And this depends upon the principle before laid down, that the precedent particular etate and the remainder are one etate in law; they mut therefore ubit and be in ee at one and the ame intant of time, either during the continuance of the firt etate or at the very intant when that determines, o that no other etate can poibly come between them. For there can be no intervening etate between the particular etate, and the remainder upported thereby : the thing upported mut fall to the ground, if once it's upport be evered from it.

is upon thee rules, but principally the lat, that the doctrine of contingent remainders depends. For remainders are either veted or ''contingent. Veted remainders (or remainders executed, whereby a preent interet paes to the party, though to be enjoyed in futuro'') are where the etate is invariably fixed, to remain to a determinate peron, after the particular etate is pent. As Rh