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  • ESTATE IN REMAINDER
    An estate limited to take effect in possession, or in enjoyment, or in both, subject only to any term of years or contingent interest that may intervene, immediately after the regular expiration of a particular estate of freehold previously created together with it, by the same instrument out of the More...
  • ESTATE IN REVERSION
    A species of estate in expectancy, created by operation of law, being the residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted out by him. 2 B1. Comm. 175; 2 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 978, s 2845. The residue More...
  • ESTATE IN SEVERALTY
    An estate held by a person in his own right only, without any other person being joined or connected with him in point of interest, during his estate. This is the most common and usual way of holding an estate. 2 Bl. Comm. 179; Cruise, Dig. tit 18. c. 1, More...
  • ESTATE IN VADIO
    An estate in gage or pledge, 2 Bl. Comm. 157; 1 Steph. Comm. 282.
  • ESTATE OF FREEHOLD
    An estate in land or other real property, of uncertain duration; that is, either of inheritance or which may possibly last for the life of the tenant at the least (as distinguished from a leasehold;) and held by a free tenure, (as distinguished from copyhold or villeinage.)
  • ESTATE OF INHERITANCE
    A species of freehold estate in lands, otherwise called a "fee," where the tenant is not only entitled to enjoy the land for his own life, but where, after his death, it is cast by the law upon the persons who successively represent him in perpetuum, in right of blood, More...
  • ESTATE PUR AUTRE VIE
    Estate for another's life. An estate in lands which a man holds for the life of another person. 2 Bl. Comm. 120; Litt. s 56.
  • ESTATE TAIL
    See ESTATE IN FEE-TAIL.
  • ESTATE TAIL, QUASI
    When a tenant for life grants his estate to a man and his heirs, as these words, though apt and proper to create an estate tail, cannot do so, because the grantor, being only tenant for life, cannot grant in perpetuum, therefore they are said to create an estate tail More...
  • ESTATE UPON CONDITION
    An estate in lands, the existence of which depends upon the happening or not happening of some uncertain event whereby the estate may be either originally created, or enlarged, or finally defeated. 2 Bl. Comm. 151; 1 Steph. Comm. 276; Co. Litt. 201a. An estate having a qualification annexed, to More...
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