CONDITIONS AND LIMITATIONS IN RESTRAINT OF MARRIAGE

Authors

Olin Browder Jr., University of AlabamaFollow

Abstract

From ancient times it has been a practice of testators to provide for the termination of a devised estate upon the marriage of the devisee, or to make their gifts conditional upon a beneficiary's marrying in a prescribed manner. In this way, a parent may hope to extend beyond his death his influence over recalcitrant or irresponsible offspring. But restraints on marriage may have other purposes. More often than not, a testator, by limiting an estate until marriage or by providing for forfeiture upon marriage, may merely seek to assure the maintenance of a female beneficiary until a husband assumes that responsibility.

Recommended Citation

Olin Browder Jr., CONDITIONS AND LIMITATIONS IN RESTRAINT OF MARRIAGE, 39 Mich. L. Rev. 1288 (1941).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol39/iss8/3