...there is a person in being ' means when you can point to a human being, man, woman or child ; and, ' who would have an immediate right to the possession of the lands upon the ceasing of the precedent estate ' means that if you can point to a man, woman or child who, if the life estate should...

...estate is either vested or contingent. It is vested, when Creation and Division of Estates. §§ 31-35 there is a person in being, who would have an immediate right lo the possession of the property, on the determination of all the intermediate or precedent estates....

...the laws of New York relating to uses and trusts, wherein It was provided, among other things, that: "Future estates are either vested or contingent They...ceasing of the Intermediate or precedent estate." The deed was a New York contract, and under the law of New York Just quoted the plaintiffs were vested...

...This view of the statute was fully set forth by Judge Woodruff in Moore v. Littel,2 as follows: " If there ' is a person in being who would have an immediate...the possession of the lands upon the ceasing of the precedent estate,' then that remainder is vested, within the terms of the statute. It is not ' a person...

...as a conditional limitation. SEC. 1022. VESTED AND CONTINUENT FUTURE ESTATES. — A future estate is manner as may be provided by law for the condemnation of property for public use, to condemn such land upon the expiration of the intermediate or precedent estate, or upon the arrival of a certain...

...precedent estate, and. therefore, under the statute l1 R. S 723, § 13) declaring that future estates are vested when there is a person in being who would have an immediate right to possessiou upon the censing of the intermediate or precedent estate, he took a ' estate which passed...

...as a conditional limitation. Sec. 1022. VESTED AND CONTINGENT FUTURE ESTATES. — A future estate is vested when there is a person in being who would have an immediate right to the possession of J;he land upon the expiration of the intermediate or precedent estate, [or upon the arrival of a certain...

...appears, to the language of the New York Revised Statutes, in which it was stated that a remainder is vested "when there is a person in being who would...ceasing of the intermediate or precedent estate," and Chancellor Kent's erroneous statement that this definition "appears to be accurately and fully...

...Smith, 116 Wis. 570. Catherine. Our statute (sec. 2037, RS 1878) provides that •future estates in land "are vested when there is a person in being who would...the lands upon the ceasing of the intermediate or preceding estate. They are contingent whilst the person to whom or the event upon which they are limited...

...of the New York Revised Statutes, in which It was stated that a remainder is vested "when there li a person in being who would have an immediate right...ceasing of the intermediate or precedent estate," and Chancellor Kent's erroneous statement that this definition "appears to be accurately and fully...