to vest

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
TO VEST, estates. To give an immediate fixed right of present or future 
enjoyment; an estate is vested in possession when there exists a right of 
present enjoyment; and an estate is vested in interest, when there is a 
present fixed right of future, enjoyment. Feame on Rem. 2; vide 2 Rop on 
Leg. 757; 8 Com. Dig. App. h.t.; 1 Vern. 323, n.; 10 Vin. Ab. 230; 1 Suppl. 
to Ves. jr. 200, 242, 315, 434; 2 Id. 157 5 Ves. 511. 
    

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