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estate for life
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Life estate
In common law and statutory law, a life estate is the ownership of land for the duration of a person's life. In legal terms it is an estate in real property that ends at death when ownership of the property may revert to the original owner, or it may pass to another person. The owner of a life estate is called a "life tenant".
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estate for life
Noun
1. (law) an estate whose duration is limited to the life of the person holding it
(synonym) life estate
(hypernym) estate
(hyponym) dower
(classification) law, jurisprudence
