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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 same subject of property. … [Read more...] about ESTATE IN REMAINDER

A species of estate less than freehold where lands and tenements are let by one man to another to have and to hold at the will of the lessor; and the tenant by force of this lease obtains possession. … [Read more...] about ESTATE AT WILL

See ELEGIT. … [Read more...] about ESTATE BY ELEGIT

An estate whereby the creditor, under the custom of London, retained the possession of all his debtor's lands until his debts were paid. 1 Greenl. Cruise, Dig. 515. See STATUTE MERCHANT. … [Read more...] about ESTATE BY STATUTE MERCHANT

Tenant by the curtesy of England is where a man survives a wife who was seised in fee simple or fee-tail of lands or tenements, and has had issue male or female by her born alive and capable of inheriting the wife's estate as heir to her; in which case he will, on the decease of his wife, hold the estate during his life as tenant by the curtesy of England. 2 Crabb, Real Prop, f … [Read more...] about ESTATE BY THE CURTESY