El Dorado Land Company, L.P. v. City of McKinney

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• holding that, if the city violated the use restriction in the conveyance deed, El Dorado retained the power to terminate the City’s estate
• holding that, if the city violated the use restriction in the conveyance deed, El Dorado retained the power to terminate the City’s estate
• holding right to repurchase property upon occurrence of contingency was an estate in land, not merely a contractual right
• noting that both possibility of reverter and right of entry are future interests in real property that are freely assignable like other property interests
• holding right to repurchase property upon occurrence of contingency was an estate in land, not merely a contractual right
• refusing to distinguish between a possibility of reverter and right of reentry, both types of reversionary future interests

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