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Special tail
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Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in
Matched in: Term Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in
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Curtesy of England
is that interest which a husband has for his life in his wife's fee-simple or fee-tail estates, generalor special, aftr her death. Tenancy by the curtesy has been abolished by the (English) A.E. Act, 1925, s. 45,
Quasi-entail
far in the nature of an estate-tail, that it will go to the heir of the body as special occupant during the life of the cestui que vie, in the same manner as an estate of inheritance
Frank-marriage
the donees shall have the tenements to them and the heirs of their two bodies begotten, i.e., in special tail, without the words of limitation such as 'heirs of his body.' The legal estate in estates tail has
Dower
the lands and tenements of which her husband dies possessed in fee-simple, fee-tail general, or as heir in special tail, which she holds from and after his decease, in severalty by metes and bounds, for her life, whether
Estate
Common Law, afterwards called fees-tail in consequence of the Statute De Donis, which may be (i.) general or special, (ii.) male or female, (iii.) given in frank-marriage. (B) Freeholds not of inheritance, sub-divided into-- (a) Conventional, or
Frank marriage
A certain tenure in tail special an estate of inheritance given to a man his wife the wife being of the blood of the
Heir
blood and inheritance.) a son who may be defeated of his inheritance by his father's displeasure. (h) Heir special. The issue in tail claiming per forman doni. (q) Ultimus h'res. He to whom lands come by escheat
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