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LIFE ESTATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does life estate mean?
• LIFE ESTATE (noun)
The noun LIFE ESTATE has 1 sense:
1. (law) an estate whose duration is limited to the life of the person holding it
Familiarity information: LIFE ESTATE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(law) an estate whose duration is limited to the life of the person holding it
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
estate for life; life estate
Hypernyms ("life estate" is a kind of...):
estate (everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "life estate"):
dower (a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband)
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