| 单词 | estate for life |
| 释义 | > as lemmasestate for life a. The interest which any one has in lands, tenements, or any other effects; often with qualifying words or phrases, as an estate upon condition, estate in fee, estate for life, estate of inheritance, estate tail, estate from year to year, estate at will, etc. personal estate n. an interest in movables; but the phrases are often regarded as signifying the respective kinds of property. See real estate n. 1 and also fee n.2, tail n.2, etc. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal concepts > [noun] > interest > in property statea1400 term1424 estate1439 real estatea1642 chattel-interest1767 1439 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 119 They that haue..estate in my land to the execucion of this my last will. ?1462 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 99 Your seid besecher had non astate in the seid maners. 1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. B iiij §39 An Estate..is that right and power whereby we haue the propertie or possessions of things. 1650 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 226 My brother Butts Bacon, whom I haue intrusted with the estate of the house or cottage in which the said Norton now liveth. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §75 Her estate in the Lighthouse was only for life. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 70 All inferior estates and interests in land are derived out of the fee simple. 1845 A. Polson in Encycl. Metrop. 829/1 An estate from year to year may arise..from that general letting heretofore held to constitute an estate at will. 1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. i. 34 The tenant is conceived as having only an estate in the lands—an interest which..was something short of absolute ownership. < as lemmas |
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