A person has a `contingent interest' in some property if there is a possibility that a real interest in that property will come to him at some point in the future. If, for example, person A makes a will leaving his house to ``whichever of my children marries first'', then the children have contingent interests. See VestedInterest for a more detailed discussion.
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