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Scintilla Juris Definition
(Lat. a spark of law or right). A legal fiction resorted to for the purpose of enabling feoffees to uses to support contingent uses when they come into existence, thereby to enable the statute of uses (27 Hen. VIII.) to execute them. For example, a shifting use; a grant to A. and his heirs to the use of B. and his heirs, until C. perform an act, and then to the use of G. and his heirs. Here the statute executes the use in B., which, being coextensive with A.’s seisin, leaves no actual seisin in A. When, however, C. performs the act, B.’s use ceases, and C.’s springs up, and he enjoys the fee simple; upon which the question arises, out of what seisin C.’s use is served. It is said to be served out of A.’s original seisin; for upon the cessor of B.’s use it is contended that the original seisin reverted to A., for the purpose of serving C.’s use, and is a possibility of seisin, or scintilla juris. See 4 Kent, Comm. 238 et seq., and the authorities there cited, for the learning upon this subject; Burton, Real Prop. 48, 49; Wilson, Springing Uses, 59, 60; Washb. Real Prop.
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(Lat. a spark of law or right). A legal fiction resorted to for the purpose of enabling feoffees to uses to support contingent uses when they come into existence, thereby to enable the statute of uses (27 Hen. VIII.) to execute them. For example, a shifting use; a grant to A. and his heirs to the use of B. and his heirs, until C. perform an act, and then to the use of G. and his heirs. Here the statute executes the use in B., which, being coextensive with A.’s seisin, leaves no actual seisin in A. When, however, C. performs the act, B.’s use ceases, and C.’s springs up, and he enjoys the fee simple; upon which the question arises, out of what seisin C.’s use is served. It is said to be served out of A.’s original seisin; for upon the cessor of B.’s use it is contended that the original seisin reverted to A., for the purpose of serving C.’s use, and is a possibility of seisin, or scintilla juris. See 4 Kent, Comm. 238 et seq., and the authorities there cited, for the learning upon this subject; Burton, Real Prop. 48, 49; Wilson, Springing Uses, 59, 60; Washb. Real Prop.
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