estate tail male
Look at other dictionaries:
male estate tail — An estate tail in which the distinctive limitation is to male heirs of the donee s body. Restatement, Property § 78, comments B, C, D; 29 Am J2d Est § 45 … Ballentine's law dictionary
fee tail male — An estate tail in which the distinctive limitation is to male heirs of the donee s body. Restatement, Property § 78, Comments b, c, d; 28 Am J2d Est § 45 … Ballentine's law dictionary
fee tail male or female — n. An estate limited to male or female lines of descent. The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008 … Law dictionary
tail general — An estate in tail granted to one and the heirs of his body begotten, which is called tail general because, how often soever such donee in tail be married, his issue in general by all and every such marriage is, in successive order, capable of… … Black's law dictionary
Estate (law) — An estate is the net worth of a person at any point in time. It is the sum of a person s assets legal rights, interests and entitlements to property of any kind less all liabilities at that time. The issue is of special legal significance on a… … Wikipedia
Fee tail — Entail redirects here. For other uses, see Entail (disambiguation). Property law … Wikipedia
Property — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Property >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 property property possession suum cuique meum et tuum GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 ownership ownership proprietorship lordship Sgm: N 2 seignority seignority … English dictionary for students
tenant — In the broadest sense, one who holds or possesses lands or tenements by any kind of right or title, whether in fee, for life, for years, at will, or otherwise. In a more restricted sense, one who holds lands of another; one who has the temporary… … Black's law dictionary
History of English land law — Material here has been extracted from the 1911 Britannica encyclopedia. The history of English land law derives from a mixture of Roman, Norman and modern legislative sources.OutlineSuch terms as fee or homage carry us back into feudal times.… … Wikipedia
Legal history of wills — Wills in the Ancient WorldThe will, if not purely Roman in origin, at least owes to Roman law its complete development, a development which in most European countries was greatly aided at a later period by ecclesiastics versed in Roman law. In… … Wikipedia
