Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!panix!.POSTED.panix3.panix.com!not-for-mail From: "Keith F. Lynch" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Longest plan Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:27:40 -0000 (UTC) Organization: United Individualist Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:27:40 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="panix3.panix.com:166.84.1.3"; logging-data="25657"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 2085 Lines: 24 Charles Packer wrote: > Cryptoengineer wrote: >> In practical terms, this limits such instruments to around 100 >> years. For example, Disney has an agreement with the state of >> Florida which grants certain privileges until 21 years after the >> death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III >> at the time the agreement was made. > Do you have a source for this rather bizarre provision? I think he's talking about the Rule Against Perpetuitites. Law is deeply weird. (For instance, the fact that I proved my innocence of burglary, but that proof was immediately dismissed as irrelevant due to untimeliness. Similarly, several people have been executed despite their innocence having been proved, and Texas is about to do the same to Robert Roberson.) In some states, no perpetuity can last more than 21 years beyond the lifetime of anyone named in the document. So they name someone as young as possible whose life is as likely as possible to be kept close track of, e.g. Britain's king's children or grandchildren. The person doesn't need have to have the slightest relevance to the perpetuity. -- Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/ Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.