Background
Dukeminier, Jesse was born on August 12, 1925 in West Point, Mississippi, United States. Son of Jesse J. and Lucile (Weems) Dukeminier.
(Few rules of law can so quickly strike terror into the he...)
Few rules of law can so quickly strike terror into the hearts of lawyers as the Rule against Perpetuities. This rule, two centuries in development, is designed to prevent tying up property for too long a time. It can be stated in one sentence, but the great nineteenth-century master of the Rule, John Chipman Gray, required more than 400 scrupulously detailed pages to explain it. For deceptive subtleties and unexpected traps it has no equal. This book views the Rule in the microcosm of Kentucky cases. It shows that perpetuities law in action differs from perpetuities law in the books. It is more chaotic than any writer has ever suggested. While the words of doctrine remain the same, the meaning shifts from case to case. Seemingly the law is working slowly and tortuously to a new and sounder policy base. The book also is designed to provide the practicing lawyer with a simplified statement of the Rule and comprehensive analysis of Kentucky cases. Lastly, the book deals with an analysis of reform, particularly the 1960 Kentucky legislature reform act, based upon a draft by the author.
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Dukeminier, Jesse was born on August 12, 1925 in West Point, Mississippi, United States. Son of Jesse J. and Lucile (Weems) Dukeminier.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1948; Bachelor of Laws, Yale University, 1951.
His two major textbooks on property law and on wills, trusts, and estates are the most widely used books in their separate fields. Updates are still being produced to the text, with the Dukeminier name, alongside coauthors, remaining on the work. Dukeminier was born in West Point, Mississippi in 1925 and received a bachelor"s degree from Harvard University in 1948, and his Juris Doctor from Yale in 1951 before briefly entering the practice of law with a Wall Street law firm.
He then taught law at the University of Kentucky College of Law, and visited at Harvard and the University of Chicago before taking a position at University of California, Los Angeles in 1963.
(Few rules of law can so quickly strike terror into the he...)
Served with infantry Army of the United States, 1943-1945. Member American Bar Association, Phi Beta Kappa.