Legal Term: SCINTILLA JURIS,

Definition: estates; A spark of right. A legal fiction, resorted to for the purpose of enabling feoffees to uses to support contingent uses when they come into existence, thereby to enable the statutes of uses, 27 Henry VIII., to execute them. 4 Kent~s Com. 238, et seq., and the authorities there cited, for the learning upon this subject.

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