Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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e'table life estate

An interest in real or

legal life estate

See life estate under ESTATE.

life estate

See ESTATE.

life estate pur autre vie

A life estate for which the measuring life - the life whose duration determines the duration of the estate - is someone other than the life tenant. - Also spelled life estate per autre vie.

life estate.

An estate held only for the duration of a specified person's life, usu. the possessor's. ( Most life estates - created, for example, by a grant "to Jane for life" - are beneficial interests under trusts, the corpus being personal property, not real property. -Also termed estate for life; legal life estate; life tenancy.

qui personal property that lasts for the life of the holder of the estate and that is equitable as opposed to legal in its creation. ( An example is a life estate held by a trust beneficiary. equitabl

See LIFE TENANT.