lease for life. Hist. A lease of land for the duration of a specified number of lives instead of for a specified term of years. • Unlike a tenant for a term of years, a lessee for life could recover the land if dispossessed. “The rent payable was usually fairly small, but a fine was […]
Hist. A lease of land for the duration of a specified number of lives instead of for a specified term of years. • Unlike a tenant for a term of years, a lessee for life could recover the land if dispossessed.
release by way of extinguishment 以灭失方式让与地产(权) 某甲的终身地产保有人〔tenant for life〕将封地出租于乙，并在后者死后将剩余地产权〔remainder〕让与丙及其继承人，而某甲又将地产权让与了乙，这实际上就使该甲的回复地产权〔reversion〕灭失了，但将使丙及乙的地产权获得成就。
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Hist. Land leased for a term measured by the life of one or more persons. — Also termed life-hold.
A sentence that imprisons the convicted criminal for life — though in some jurisdictions the prisoner may become eligible for release on good behavior, rehabilitation, or the like. [Cases: Sentencing and Punishment 1020, 1055. C.J.S. Criminal Law § 1468.]
A lease of property (esp. equipment) for a term that is shorter than the property’s useful life. • Under an operating lease, the lessor is typically responsible for paying taxes and other expenses on the property. Cf. LEASE-PURCHASE AGREEMENT.
discontinuance (dis-k[schwa]n-tin-yoo-[schwa]nts), n. 1. The termination of a lawsuit by the plaintiff; a voluntary dismissal or nonsuit. See DISMISSAL; NONSUIT(1); judgment of discontinuance under JUDGMENT. [Cases: Federal Civil Procedure 1691; Pretrial Procedure 501. C.J.S. Dismissal and Nonsuit §§ 2–7, 9–10, 12, 14–16, 24.] 2. The termination of an estate-tail by a tenant in tail who
freehold, n. 1. An estate in land held in fee simple, in fee tail, or for term of life; any real-property interest that is or may become possessory. • At common law, these estates were all created by enfeoffment with livery of seisin. [Cases: Estates in Property 4–7, 12. C.J.S. Estates §§ 10–14, 20–27.] 2.
enlarger l’estate (en-lahr-j[schwa]r l[schwa]-stayt). [Law French] Hist. A release that enlarges an estate and consists of a conveyance of the ulterior interest to the tenant. • If an estate was held by a tenant for life or years, with the remainder to another in fee, and if the one in remainder released all rights to
farm let, vb. Hist. To lease; to let land for rent. • To farm let is a phrasal verb that commonly appeared in real-property leases; it corresponds with its Latin root, ad firmam tradidi. “A lease is properly a conveyance of any lands or tenements, (usually in consideration of rent or other annual recompense) made