Subject to section 17, the following rules are abolished:
(a) the rules known as the common law contingent remainder rules;
(b) the rule known as the Rule in Purefoy v. Rogers;
(c) the rule known as the Rule in Whitby v. Mitchell (also known as the old rule against perpetuities and the rule against double possibilities);
(d) the rule against perpetuities;
(e) the rule against accumulations.