Section 16 — Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW)

(1) A contingent remainder existing at any time after the commencement of this Act shall be capable of taking effect notwithstanding the want of a particular estate of freehold to support it in the same manner as it would take effect if it were a contingent remainder of an equitable estate supported by an outstanding legal estate in fee simple.
(2) A contingent remainder or a contingent interest lying between two estates vested in the same person shall prevent the merger of those two estates.

Related sections

• s 13 — Stipulations not of the essence of contracts
• s 14 — The immediate freehold of land to lie in grant as well as in livery
• s 15 — Creation of certain estate in chattels real
• s 17 — Rule in Shelley’s case excluded in certain cases
• s 18 — Release of part of land from rent charge not to extinguish whole charge
• s 19 — Limitations of estates tail to pass the fee simple

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