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Definition of Expectances
1. expectance [n] - See also: expectance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expectances
Literary usage of Expectances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages by John Joseph Powell, Thomas Coventry (1822)
"18, n. no distinction between contingent and certain expectances, ii. 1091.
EXPECTANT HEIR, of heir apparent, nut an interest, ii. ..."
2. A treatise on the law of mortgage by Richard Holmes Coote (1850)
"RETAINER, heir or devisee entitled to lien by way of retainer for debt due to
him from testator, 228. REVERSIONARY INTERESTS. See expectances. of dealings ..."
3. Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Judicial Committee and the by Great Britain Privy Council. Judicial Committee (1866)
"... accepting a transfer of the St. Andrew's and Quebec Railway Company, and of
purchasing all the lands, property, rights, and expectances of that Company, ..."
4. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1897)
"That in estimating damages for death by wrongful act, the expectances of the
deceased may be reckoned. See Pool v. Southern Pacific R. Co., 26 Pac. ..."
5. Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society by Hakluyt Society (1882)
"... and exclude all future expectances and hopes of fauour; carpenters, therefore,
are on all sides employed about it. ..."
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