111.101 - Abolishment of Rule in Shelley’s Case. - Nevada Statutes

111.101  Abolishment of Rule in Shelley’s Case.  If land is granted or devised to a person and after the person’s death to his or her heirs or the heirs of his or her body, regardless of how the grant or devise is expressed, an estate for life vests in that person and his or her heirs take the remainder pursuant to the grant or devise and not through that person. The purpose of this section is to abolish the Rule in Shelley’s Case.

      (Added to NRS by 1983, 927)

      NRS 111.102  Abolishment of doctrine of destructibility of contingent remainders.  A contingent remainder is not destroyed by the termination of the preceding estate before the satisfaction of the condition upon which the remainder is contingent. If the condition is subsequently satisfied, the remainder takes effect in the same manner as a springing or shifting executory interest. The purpose of this section is to abolish the doctrine of the destructibility of contingent remainders.

      (Added to NRS by 1983, 928)