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Definition of Life tenant
1. Noun. A tenant whose legal right to retain possession of buildings or lands lasts as long as they (or some other person) live.
Definition of Life tenant
1. Noun. (legal) The recipient of a life estate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Life Tenant
Literary usage of Life tenant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"That, the son having died before the life tenant, leaving children who survived
the latter, his remainder share became indefeasible upon the death of such ..."
2. Handbook of the Law of Insurance by William Reynolds Vance (1904)
"g 148) RIGHTS OF life tenant AND REMAINDERMAN. RIGHTS OF life tenant AND REMAINDERMAN.
148. The interests of life tenant and remainderman ..."
3. A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence, as Administered in the United States of by John Norton Pomeroy (1899)
"Conversion as between life tenant and Remainderman.— Many important questions
arise in the English courts as between the conflicting rights of life tenants ..."
4. A Treatise on the American Law of Landlord and Tenant by John Neilson Taylor (1887)
"Injunction against Life-tenant without Impeachment of Waste. — An estate for life
is always impeachable for waste, unless the contrary has been expressly ..."
5. Estates, Future Interests, and Illegal Conditions and Restraints in Illinois by Albert Martin Kales (1920)
"For instance, what would have been waste on the part of a life tenant would not
be waste when committed by the holder of a fee, the remainderman being as to ..."
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