When a future estate, other than a reversion, is dependent on a precedent estate, it may be called a remainder, and may be created and transferred by that name.

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Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 43-9-4

  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.

Source: CivC 1877, § 226; CL 1887, § 2742; RCivC 1903, § 249; RC 1919, § 319; SDC 1939, § 51.0410.