expectant right
Law (now rare )
noun
A right to a possession or privilege, especially a reversionary or remainder interest, which is dependant upon the continued existence of present conditions until a specified future event occurs.
Origin
Late 18th century.
- mass distribution
- mass driver
- massecuite
- massed entry
- massed estate
- massed start
- mass effect
- Massena
- mass energy
- masseter
- masseteric
- masseter muscle
- masseur
- masseuse
- mass extinction
- Massey, Raymond
- Massey's Cossacks
- mass fragmentography
- mass function
- mass grave
- mass-haul curve
- mass-haul diagram
- Masshole
- mass house
- Massic