In Scotch law. A reletting or renewal of a lease; a tacit relocation is permitting a tenant to hold over without any new agreement. In mining law. A new or fresh location of an abandoned or forfeited mining claim by a stranger, or by the original locator when he wishes to change the boundaries or to correct mistakes in the original location. … [Read more...]

In French law. The release of a debt. … [Read more...]

The remnant of an estate in land, depending upon a particular prior estate created at the same time and by the same'instrument, and limited to arise immediately on the determination of that estate, and not in abridgment of it 4 Kent, Comm. 197. An estate limited to take effect and be enjoyed after another estate is determined. As, if a man seised in fee simple grants lands to … [Read more...]

One who is entitled to the remainder of the estate after a particular estate carved out of it has expired. Someone who will inherit property in the future. … [Read more...]

One who is entitled to the remainder of the estate after a particular estate carved out of it has expired. … [Read more...]