perpetuities
- plural of perpetuity.
Example Sentences
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That might violate a legal principle known as the rule against perpetuities, a question on which I gather is a fixture on bar exams the world over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
States began doing away with a centuries-old legal concept known as the "rule against perpetuities."
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2021
In 1983, he abolished the rule against perpetuities and, from that moment on, property placed in trust in South Dakota would stay there for ever.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2019
He says that his insistence on perpetuity is “appropriate”—but perpetuities are never appropriate.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2015
Neither was it, perhaps, unreasonable to snatch the occasion of alleging and manifesting the momentous and instructive truth—that the intenser working of the mind finds out, in every age, the perpetuities of a language.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various
