Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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special occupant

See OCCUPANT.

special occupant.

A pur autre vie tenant's heir who occupies land in the interim between the death of the tenant and the death of the person who serves as the measuring life for the estate. ( A special occupancy can arise when the grant to the pur autre vie tenant provides that possession is for the life of the tenant, then to the tenant's heirs.