quasi estate tail

quasi estate tail
When a tenant for life grants his estate to a man and his heirs, as these words, though apt and proper to create an estate tail, cannot do so, because the grantor, being only tenant for life, cannot grant in perpetuum, therefore they are said to create an estate tail quasi, or improper

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  • quasi estate tail — When a tenant for life grants his estate to a man and his heirs, as these words, though apt and proper to create an estate tail, cannot do so, because the grantor, being only tenant for life, cannot grant in perpetuum, therefore they are said to… …   Black's law dictionary

  • estate tail, quasi — When a tenant for life grants his estate to a man and his heirs, as these words, though apt and proper to create an estate tail, cannot do so, because the grantor, being only tenant for life, cannot grant in perpetuum, therefore they are said to… …   Black's law dictionary

  • estate tail, quasi — When a tenant for life grants his estate to a man and his heirs, as these words, though apt and proper to create an estate tail, cannot do so, because the grantor, being only tenant for life, cannot grant in perpetuum, therefore they are said to… …   Black's law dictionary

  • quasi entail — An estate pur autre vie may be granted, not only to a man and his heirs, but to a man and the heirs of his body, which is termed a quasi entail; the interest so granted not being properly an estate tail (for the statute De Donis applies only… …   Black's law dictionary

  • quasi entail — An estate pur autre vie may be granted, not only to a man and his heirs, but to a man and the heirs of his body, which is termed a quasi entail; the interest so granted not being properly an estate tail (for the statute De Donis applies only… …   Black's law dictionary

  • tenant — In the broadest sense, one who holds or possesses lands or tenements by any kind of right or title, whether in fee, for life, for years, at will, or otherwise. In a more restricted sense, one who holds lands of another; one who has the temporary… …   Black's law dictionary

  • entail — v. To settle or limit the succession to real property; to create an estate tail n. A fee abridged or limited to the issue, or certain classes of issue, instead of descending to all the heirs. Break or bar an entail. To free an estate from the… …   Black's law dictionary

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