Also known as: persons entitled to future possession · remainderman · reversioner
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A holder of a nonpossessory future interest in property.
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Olivia held a fee tail in an irrigated farm with no remainderman or executory interest named in the creating instrument. She died without children. Mia, identified as a reversioner, receives possession because the fee tail ended with no qualifying issue or future interest holder to take under the grant.
A fee tail tenant died without issue and without any remainderman or executory interest created by the original gift. The property passed to the reversioner who now holds the right to immediate possession.
The owner of a fee tail preserved for a single lifetime died without issue and without an executory interest. The designated remainderman receives the estate exactly as limited in the original conveyance.
A fee tail preserved for one lifetime ended when the tenant died without issue, remainderman, or executory interest. The reversioner now holds the present right to the land.
The reversioner receives the land when no issue, remainderman, or executory interest exists under the creating instrument.