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

While the company will “struggle to grow,” the current stock price implies that its business shrinks 5% each year in perpetuity, he added.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

As much as the movie frets about kids with a death-grip on their technological addiction, it also wants to play in perpetuity on millions of streaming devices, including an officially licensed “Toy Story”-branded tablet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

I would remain a child, in perpetuity, always, or I would lose him.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

States began doing away with a centuries-old legal concept known as the "rule against perpetuities."

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2021

“No more questions. I didn’t understand perpetuities in law school, and I don’t want to understand it now,” he said, laughing.

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

The rent £8,000 a year, but re-let for £64,000 a year, by tenants that have perpetuities, perhaps the cruellest instance in the world of carelessness for the interests of posterity. 

From A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779 by Henry Morley