Brown v. Independent Baptist Church of Woburn

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• devise to defendant “so long as they shall maintain and promulgate their present religious belief and faith and shall continue a Church”
• on breach of the condition, the general residuary beneficiaries received the land through the operation of the reversionary interest known as the possibility of reverter
• “[T]o the Independent Baptist Church of Woburn ... so long as they . . . shall continue a Church . . . then ... to my legatees hereinafter named”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).