unborn widow rule

unborn-widow rule. The legal fiction, assumed under the rule against perpetuities, that a beneficiary’s widow is not yet born at the testator’s death, and thus a succeeding life estate to her voids any remainders because the interest would not vest within the perpetuities period. See RULE AGAINST PERPETUITIES.

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