Contingent remainders to take effect notwithstanding premature failure of preceding estate
26 Contingent remainders to take effect notwithstanding premature failure of preceding estate
A contingent remainder is and shall be deemed to have been capable of taking effect notwithstanding the destruction or determination by forfeiture, surrender or merger of any preceding estate of freehold in the same manner and in all respects as if the destruction or determination had not happened.
Every contingent remainder in tenements or hereditaments of any tenure that would have been valid as a springing or shifting use or executory devise or other limitation had it not had a sufficient estate to support it as a contingent remainder, is capable, in the event of the particular estate determining before the contingent remainder vests, of taking effect in all respects as if the contingent remainder had originally been created as a springing or shifting use or executory devise or other limitation.
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