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springing use

noun/ˈsprɪŋɪŋ juːs/

C2CEFR level
93/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A use that arises to confer an interest at a future date without cutting short any prior estate.

A conveyance to hold to the use of B from the following year created a springing use in B.

Topic: Property in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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