70-1-422. Future interest contingent on death without children -- how defeated. A future interest depending on the contingency of the death of any person without successors, heirs, issue, or children is defeated by the birth of a posthumous child of such person, capable of taking by succession.
History: En. Sec. 45, p. 486, Bannack Stat.; re-en. Sec. 45, p. 403, Cod. Stat. 1871; re-en. Sec. 222, 5th Div. Rev. Stat. 1879; re-en. Sec. 280, 5th Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; amd. Sec. 1180, Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 4474, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 6716, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Civ. C. Sec. 739; Field Civ. C. Sec. 211; re-en. Sec. 6716, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 67-417.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Chapter 1. Property in General Real and Personal
Part 4. Conditions and Limitations of Ownership
70-1-401. Fixing time of enjoyment -- computation -- condition
70-1-403. Condition precedent requiring wrongful act
70-1-404. Conditions restraining marriage void
70-1-405. Conditions restraining alienation void
70-1-419. Future interest not void for improbable contingency
70-1-420. Future interest limited to class -- posthumous children
70-1-421. Future interest subject to defeat -- how -- not void
70-1-422. Future interest contingent on death without children -- how defeated
70-1-423. Future interest not defeated by destruction of other interest
70-1-424. Future contingent interest -- termination of precedent interest