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ESTATE FOR LIFE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(law) an estate whose duration is limited to the life of the person holding it
Synonyms:
estate for life; life estate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("estate for life" 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 "estate for life"):
dower (a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband)
