law, a life estate (or life tenancy) is the ownership of immovable property for the duration of a person's life. In legal terms, it is an estate in real...

intention to transfer a smaller estate, such as a life estate. Many jurisdictions retain the possibility of creating a life estate, although this is uncommon...

Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as growing crops (e.g. timber), minerals or water...

A marital life estate is, in the common law tradition of the United States and Great Britain, a life estate held by a living spouse (husband or wife)...

An estate can be an estate for years, an estate at will, a life estate (extinguishing at the death of the holder), an estate pur autre vie (a life interest...

the payment of certain life insurance benefits or financial accounts. The estate tax is part of the federal unified gift and estate tax in the United States...

A leasehold estate is an ownership of a temporary right to hold land or property in which a lessee or a tenant has rights of real property by some form...

Guangdong Province, China. In 2018, Evergrande became the most valuable real estate company in the world, but by 2021 it had collapsed financially and started...

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another['s] life") is a duration of a proprietary freehold interest in the form of a variant of a life estate. While it is similar to a standard life estate pur...

In property law, a concurrent estate or co-tenancy is any of various ways in which property is owned by more than one person at a time. If more than one...

an estate of a lesser quantum than he has (such as the owner of a fee simple granting a life estate or a leasehold estate). Once the lesser estate comes...

In English common law, real property, real estate, immovable property or, solely in the US and Canada, realty, refers to parcels of land and any associated...

It remained Washington's home for the rest of his life. Following his death in 1799, the estate progressively declined under the ownership of several...

subsequent. A life estate may also be defeasible. Because a defeasible estate always grants less than a full fee simple, a defeasible estate will always...

International tax law distinguishes between an estate tax and an inheritance tax. An inheritance tax is a tax paid by a person who inherits money or property...

not legal ownership. A usufruct is directly equatable to a common-law life estate except that a usufruct can be granted for a term shorter than the holder's...

executory limitation finite estate—limited to lifetimes life estate—fragmented possession and use for duration of someone's life fee tail—inalienable rights...

other Germanic laws. The word is a compound of *all "whole, full" and *ōd "estate, property" (cf. Old Saxon ōd, Old English ead, Old Norse auðr). Allodial...

the trust document. One form of life interest is a life estate, an ownership interest in property that lasts for the life of the party to whom it has been...

doctrine. Under common law, Life estate is an interest in real property that ends at death. The holder has the use of the land for life, but typically no ability...

gifts, or executory interests that followed an unidentified widow's life estate] would fail because of the possibility that the [identified party] would...

established by deed or settlement, that restricts the sale or inheritance of an estate in real property and prevents that property from being sold, devised by...

Estate planning is the process of anticipating and arranging for the management and disposal of a person's estate during the person's life in preparation...

Glensheen, the Historic Congdon Estate is a 20,000 square foot mansion in Duluth, Minnesota, United States, operated by the University of Minnesota Duluth...

annuitant's estate or beneficiary is entitled to collect the remaining payments certain. The tradeoff between the pure life annuity and the life-with-period-certain...

The estates of the realm, or three estates, were the broad orders of social hierarchy used in Christendom (Christian Europe) from the Middle Ages to early...

no longer allow for such secrecy. In many civil law countries, the real estate transfers are usually supervised by notaries who, after a due diligence...

Biltmore Estate is a historic house museum and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina. Biltmore House (or Biltmore Mansion), the main residence...

"An estate in land held in fee simple, fee tail or for term of life." The default position subset is the perpetual freehold, which is "an estate given...