life tenant
life tenant 终身地产保有人 在自己或相关他人生存期间保有地产并享有权益的人。
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life tenant
A person who, until death, is beneficially entitled to property; the holder of a life estate. — Also termed tenant for life; life-owner. See life estate under ESTATE(1). [Cases: Life Estates 1. C.J.S. Estates §§ 28–29, 31, 34.]
equitable life tenant
A life tenant not automatically entitled to possession but who makes an election allowed by law to a person of that status — such as a spouse — and to whom a court will normally grant possession if security or an undertaking is given. [Cases: Life Estates 1, 6. C.J.S. Estates §§ 28–29, 31, 34,
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legal life tenant
A life tenant who is automatically entitled to possession by virtue of a legal estate. [Cases: Life Estates 1. C.J.S. Estates §§ 28–29, 31, 34.]
life tenant
life tenant. A person who, until death, is beneficially entitled to property; the holder of a life estate. — Also termed tenant for life; life-owner. See life estate under ESTATE(1). [Cases: Life Estates 1. C.J.S. Estates §§ 28–29, 31, 34.] equitable life tenant. A life tenant not automatically entitled to possession but who makes an
lease for life
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
tenant in dower
A life tenant who is entitled to hold and use one-third of all the real property owned by her deceased husband. See DOWER.
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 often being personal property, not real property. — Also termed estate for life; legal life estate; life
landlord–tenant relationship
landlord–tenant relationship. The familiar legal relationship existing between the lessor and lessee of real estate. • The relationship is contractual, created by a lease (or agreement for lease) for a term of years, from year to year, for life, or at will, and exists when one person occupies the premises of another with the lessor’s
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