rule against perpetuities (English, noun)
expansion: rule against perpetuities (plural rules against perpetuities)
Senses:
topics: law
glosses: 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.
tags: singular
singular-only
topics: law
glosses: Any rule that prevents a testator or other transferor of property from controlling further transfer of his property beyond a certain length of time.
tags: broadly
countable
Forms:
form: rules against perpetuities
tags: plural