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ARTICLE 6
Classification, Creation, Definition Of, and Rules Governing Estates In Property
Estates, Powers & Trusts (EPT) CHAPTER 17-B
ARTICLE 6

CLASSIFICATION, CREATION, DEFINITION OF, AND RULES GOVERNING

ESTATES IN PROPERTY

PART 1. ESTATES CLASSIFIED AS TO DURATION
Section 6-1.1 Estates classified.

6-1.2 Estates tail abolished; future estates limited thereon.

6-1.3 When estate for life of third person is real property;

when personal property.

PART 2. ESTATES CLASSIFIED AS TO NUMBER OF PERSONS
Section 6-2.1 Estates in severalty, joint tenancy, tenancy by the

entirety and in common.

6-2.2 When estate is in common, in joint tenancy or by the

entirety.

PART 3. ESTATES CLASSIFIED AS TO TIME OF ENJOYMENT AND

CREATION
Section 6-3.1 Estates in possession and future estates.

6-3.2 Kinds of future estates.

6-3.3 Concerning the creation of certain future estates.

6-3.4 When future estates are created.

PART 4. ESTATES DEFINED
Section 6-4.1 Definition of an estate in possession.

6-4.2 Definition of a future estate.

6-4.3 Definition of a remainder.

6-4.4 Definition of reversion.

6-4.5 Definition of a possibility of reverter.

6-4.6 Definition of right of reacquisition.

6-4.7 Definition of a future estate indefeasibly vested.

6-4.8 Definition of a future estate vested subject to open.

6-4.9 Definition of a future estate vested subject to complete

defeasance.

6-4.10 Definition of a future estate subject to a condition

precedent.

PART 5. RULES GOVERNING FUTURE ESTATES
Section 6-5.1 Characteristics of future estates.

6-5.2 Power of appointment not to prevent vesting.

6-5.3 Future estates in the alternative.

6-5.4 Implication of cross remainders between tenants in

common.

6-5.5 Future estate valid though contingency improbable.

6-5.6 Meaning of heirs, distributees and issue in certain

remainders.

6-5.7 Posthumous children.

6-5.8 Heirs or distributees of life tenant take as purchasers.

6-5.9 Heirs or distributees of creator take as purchasers.

6-5.10 When future estates are defeated.

6-5.11 Non-destructibility of remainders subject to a condition

precedent.

6-5.12 Future rents and profits subject to rules governing

future estates.

PART 6. DISPOSITION OF COMMUNITY PROPERTY RIGHTS AT DEATH
Section 6-6.1 Application.

6-6.2 Rebuttable presumptions.

6-6.3 Disposition upon death.

6-6.4 Perfection of title.

6-6.5 Purchaser for value or lender.

6-6.6 Effect and construction of part.

6-6.7 Short title.