- special estate tail
- An estate in tail under a limitation to one and certain specified heirs of his body, as the heirs of his body begotten of a certain wife. 28 Am J2d Estates § 45.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
special estate tail
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