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‖ spes Law.|speɪz|
[L.]
A hope or expectancy, esp. of some future benefit. Also in various Latin phrases (see quots. 1959).
1815Decisions First & Second Divisions Court of Session (Faculty of Advocates) 28 Feb. 258 There is a jus crediti conferred on the heir of a marriage-contract. It is not a mere spes successionis, but a jus crediti. 1945Law Rep. 10 May 363 Sine spe recuperandi, in the sense of abandoning all hope of his owner recovering the ship. 1952Ibid. 10 July 486 The taxpayer's answer to that is, first of all, that this is not property at all but a mere spes or hope of getting something. 1959Jowitt Dict. Eng. Law II. 1664/2 Spes recuperandi, the hope of recovery. If it is entertained by a person in danger of death, it makes a declaration by him inadmissible in evidence... Ibid., Spes successionis, an expectation of succession, as distinct from a vested right. 1977Johns & Greenfield Dymond's Capital Transfer Tax ii. 40 The fiction of Re Scott does not go so far as to require one to suppose that the beneficiary had more than an interest in expectancy..or indeed a mere spes, when he died. |