{"id":238,"date":"2019-05-17T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=238"},"modified":"2023-12-15T21:57:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:57:18","slug":"condition-language-creates-executory-interest-but-new-executory-interests-banned-unless-held-by-public-or-charitable-entities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2019\/05\/17\/condition-language-creates-executory-interest-but-new-executory-interests-banned-unless-held-by-public-or-charitable-entities\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Condition&#8221; language creates executory interest, but new executory interests banned unless held by public or charitable entities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>n\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/new-hampshire\/supreme-court\/2019-2018-0006.pdf?ts=1547215903\">White v. Auger,<\/a><\/strong>2019 N.H. LEXIS 4 (N.H. 2019), the grantor conveyed property to a grantee &#8220;on condition that&#8221; the grantee build on it (or on adjacent land) and live there (within 10 years) created a fee simple subject to executory limitation. State statutes abolished possibilities of reverter, rights of entry, and executory limitations unless the grantee is a public or charitable organization but that law did not apply retroactively. N.H. Rev. Stat. 477:3-b. Older future interests could continue if they were re-recorded as required by the statute.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/estates-and-future-interests\/\" rel=\"tag\">Estates and Future Interests<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>n\u00a0White v. Auger,2019 N.H. LEXIS 4 (N.H. 2019), the grantor conveyed property to a grantee &#8220;on condition that&#8221; the grantee build on it (or on adjacent land) and live there (within 10 years) created a fee simple subject to executory limitation. State statutes abolished possibilities of reverter, rights of entry, and executory limitations unless the grantee is a public or charitable organization but that law did not apply retroactively. N.H. Rev. Stat. 477:3-b. Older future interests could continue if they were re-recorded as required by the statute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estates-and-future-interests"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}