Future Interests

Historical Development of Future Interests; Future Interests Classified and Distinguished; The Obsolete Destructibility Rule; Rule in Shelley's Case; Worthier Title Doctrine; Alienability and Descendibility; Creditors' Claims; Partition of Future Interests in Land; Protection of Future Interests; Extinguishment of Future Interests; Nature, Classification and Creation; Claims of Creditors and Spouses; Execution; Termination by Release and by Renunciation; General Principles of Construction; Vested or Contingent Construction; Condition of Survivorship; Death Without Issue; Class Gifts; Other Construction Problems Related to Class Gifts; Construction When an Interest Fails; Direct Restraints on Alienation; Rule Against Perpetuities: Preview and History; Common Law Rule and Its Modern Amendments; New York Statutory Pattern: Suspension of the Power of Alienation; Duration of Indestructible Trusts.