Identifies those laws governing the rights of persons in property when their interests are projected into the future, highlighting direct applications to ordinary situations. Examines such scenarios as planning an estate, preparing a will, creating a trust, and real property issues. Section titles discuss the permissible types of future interests and expectancies, future interests in lands, future interests in real and personal chattels, the creation of future interests, construction, powers of appointment, rules restricting the creation of future interests, present legal relations of owners of future interests, and termination of future interests. Includes detailed index, and tables of cases and statutes.