Fitzpatrick v. Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

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• stating that “the Rule [Against Perpetuity] is not concerned with the duration of estates, but the time of their vesting.”
• finding no Rule against Perpetuities violation where a donee’s reserved power to cancel and revoke the deed of trust, subject to a condition precedent, must have been exercised during her lifetime, and therefore within the period of the Rule
• finding no Rule against Perpetuities violation where a donee's reserved power to cancel and revoke the deed of trust, subject to a condition precedent, must have been exercised during her lifetime, and therefore within the period of the Rule

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