Fitzpatrick v. Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• 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

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ferrero Construction Co. v. Dennis Rourke Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-02-10· cited 78×
• City of Bowie v. MIE, Properties, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-05-04· cited 59×
• Arundel Corp. v. Marie
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-11-09· cited 56×
• Park Station Ltd. Partnership, LLLP v. Bosse
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-11-13· cited 40×
• Cattail Associates, Inc. v. Sass
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2006-09-15· cited 26×
• Selig v. State Highway Administration
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-11-16· cited 17×
• Karsenty v. Schoukroun
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-11-12· cited 16×
• Dorado Ltd. Partnership v. Broadneck Development Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-09-01· cited 12×
• Grove v. Frame
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1979-08-21· cited 11×
• Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Whiting Oil & Gas Corp.
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2014-03-03· cited 11×
• Arthur E. Selnick Associates, Inc. v. Howard County Maryland
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2012-08-30· cited 9×
• Brown v. Parran
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1998-04-06· cited 5×
• Dennis Rourke Corp. v. Ferrero Construction Co.
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1985-10-09· cited 5×
• Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc. v. Saddlebrook West Utility Co.
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-08-31· cited 5×
• Murphy v. Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1964-10-15· cited 4×

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Cook v. Horn
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1958-07-11· cited 9×
• In re the Final Accounting of Nordlinger
  New York Supreme Court· 1948-04-14· cited 6×