Purvis v. McElveen

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• concluding with little explanation that similar language created possibility of reverter
• fee simple determinable is an estate in fee with a qualification annexed to it
• “[T]he whole estate will, upon the happening of the event of defeasance, pass, if the grantor be then dead, not to those who were his heirs at the time of his death, but to those who answer to the description of his heirs at the time of the termination of the estate granted.”

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