期き待たい権けん

noun

expectant right; contingent right

Legal term: a right that depends on a future event or condition, as opposed to a vested right. Used in contexts such as property law, inheritance, and contracts.

• 相そう続ぞくにおける期き待たい権けんは、被ひ相そう続ぞく人にんの死し亡ぼうによって具ぐ体たい的てきな権けん利りに変かわる。

  An expectant right in inheritance becomes a concrete right upon the death of the decedent.

• この契けい約やくでは、条じょう件けんが成じょう就じゅするまでは期き待たい権けんにすぎない。

  Under this contract, it is merely a contingent right until the condition is fulfilled.