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Definition of Remoteness

1. Noun. The property of being remote.

2. Noun. A disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner.

Definition of Remoteness

1. Noun. the quality of being remote ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Remoteness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Remoteness

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Literary usage of Remoteness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Law of Wills by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1866)
"The question of remoteness in an executory devise is learnedly and lucidly discussed by the judge last named, in the case of The Church in Brattle Square v. ..."

2. Principles of the Law of Real Property: Intended as a First Book for the Use by Joshua Williams, Thomas Cyprian Williams (1892)
"OF remoteness OF LIMITATION. THE limitation of estates to arise at a future time by way of shifting use or executory devise must conform to the requirements ..."

3. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery: Before the Right by Great Britain Court of Chancery, James Wigram, James Lewis Knight Bruce, George James Turner, William Page Wood Hatherley (1858)
"That the limitation to the unborn children of the testator's children for their lives was not void for remoteness only, because it was a gift to persons who ..."

4. The Law of Real Property and Other Interests in Land by Herbert Thorndike Tiffany (1903)
"Effect of remoteness of contingency. Limitations which are void for ... There was no rule against remoteness in the time of the Year Books. sss Lewis, ..."

5. The Law Times (1877)
"remoteness IN REGARD TO LIMITATIONS AFTER ESTATES TAIL. IN an article on the 16th ult, on the proposed alteration of the lawin regard to contingent ..."

6. An Elementary Treatise on the American Law of Real Property by Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman (1892)
"Same — remoteness.— The event must not be too remote, so as to suspend the power of alienation beyond the period allowed by the policy of the law. ..."

7. The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century by Herbert Levi Osgood (1907)
"The remoteness of the colonies from England, —their geographical isolation, ... Because of their remoteness, the colonies naturally transacted most of their ..."

8. The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century by Herbert Levi Osgood (1907)
"The remoteness of the colonies from England, their geographical isolation, ... Because of their remoteness, the colonies naturally transacted most of their ..."

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