An estate in lands held by two or more persons, with interests accruing under different titles; or accruing under the same title, but at different periods; or conferred by words of limitation importing that the grantees are to take in distinct shares. 1 Steph. Comm. 323. See TENANCY IN COMMON. … [Read more...] about ESTATE IN COMMON
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ESTACHE
A bridge or stank of stone or timber. Cowell. … [Read more...] about ESTACHE
ESTATE IN COPARCENARY
An estate which several persons hold as one heir, whether male or female. This estate has the three unities of time, title, and possession; but the interests of the coparceners may be unequal. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 414; 2 BL Comm. 188. See COPARCENARY. … [Read more...] about ESTATE IN COPARCENARY
ESTADAL
Spanish law. In Spanish America, this was a measure of land of sixteen square varas or yards. 2 White's Coll. 139. … [Read more...] about ESTADAL
ESTATE IN DOWER
A species of life estate which a woman is, by law, entitled to claim on the death of her husband, in the lands and tenements of which he was seised in fee during the marriage, and which, her issue, if any, might by possibility have inherited. 3 Steph. Comm. 249; 2 Bl. Comm. 129; Cruise, Dig. tit 6; 2 Crabb, Real Prop, p. 124, … [Read more...] about ESTATE IN DOWER