perpetuity

Jerry included instructions to vote Jeanie as the controlling owner in perpetuity, a provision that has led to nearly constant conflict in the years since.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

“We can’t just sit out in perpetuity, and I won’t,” he said in 2024.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

“We give $2.5 million a year in perpetuity to the University of California, so that all California Indians can go to the University of California tuition-free.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

Bob’s move signals he’ll do anything to silence her, now and in perpetuity.

From Salon ● May 29, 2026

And if it can’t end, then it should at least continue into perpetuity like the adventures of Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem’s platoon.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

That said, the law tends to frown on perpetuities as well as on legislative acts that bind future legislatures, except through constitutions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2022

These trusts are often formed in U.S. states—such as South Dakota—that have suspended or altered their state "rule against perpetuities," legislation that previously limited the lifespan of a trust.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2021

In 1983, he abolished the rule against perpetuities and, from that moment on, property placed in trust in South Dakota would stay there for ever.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2019

He says that his insistence on perpetuity is “appropriate”—but perpetuities are never appropriate.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2015

Others forbid the establishment of any church or sect; the introduction of armed men "for the suppression of domestic violence"; "perpetuities or monopolies," and a variety of other things.

From The Framework of Home Rule by Erskine Childers