A remainder vests if, at the time it is created, the remainderman exists and is ascertainable, and no condition need first occur to identify him.
Accounting rules permit a company to base the value of a deal on the value of either what was paid or what was received, depending on which is ascertainable.
But the majority dismissed that argument, stressing that "New York journalists should not have to consult the law in the jurisdiction where a source is located or where a story 'breaks' (assuming either is ascertainable) in order to determine whether they can issue a binding promise of confidentiality".
The term "white person" was defined in Section 20-54 as a person with "no other admixture of blood other than white and American Indian," provided that the amount of Indian blood was one-sixteenth or less; the term "colored person" was defined in Section 1-14 as a person "in whom there is ascertainable any Negro blood".
However, it is unclear that an agent's full set of preferences is ascertainable even to himself or herself.
The long-term consequences of this change are not now known and are unlikely to be ascertainable for some time to come.
In one third of STEMI patients, no reason was ascertainable for not providing acute reperfusion treatment.
Our objective was to determine whether the transition from primarily curative to palliative goals was ascertainable using specific intervention choices.
Now that the number may be ascertainable, biologists are being more cautious in their predictions.
But, he said, whereas assent and dissent are ascertainable in kindred or culturally similar languages, there is no guarantee that just because the speaker of a radically foreign language ("Jungle") always says "Gavagai" when a rabbit runs past, he means "Rabbit" or "Lo, a rabbit".
