ESTATE FOR LIFE
sa are proprietor as constituting, together with his resources available to defray them, one entirety, that the phraseology of the law governing what is called “settlement of estates” can be justified. Abbott.
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ESTATE FOR YEARS
the tenant for his own life or the life or lives of one or more other persons, or for an indefinite period, which may endure for the life or lives of persons in being, and not beyond the period of a life. 1 Washb. Real
ESTATE IN COPARCENARY. An es
tate which several persons hold as one heir, whether male or female. This estate has the three unities of time, title, and possession; but the interests of the coparceners may be unequal. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 414; 2 Bl.
ESTATE IN JOINT TENANCY. An es
tate in lands or tenements granted to two or more persons, to hold in fee-simple, feetall, for life, for years, or at will 2 BI.
ESTATE IN REVERSION
cient designation of this species of estate, and hence “simple” is not a necessary part of the title, but it is added as a means of clearly distinguishing this estate from a feetail or from any variety of conditional estates.
ESTATE IN SEVERALTY
grant or otherwise, out of a larger one, leaving in the original owner an ulterior estate immediately expectant on that which is so derived; the latter interest being called the “particular estate,” (as being only a small part or particula of the...
ESTATE OF INHERITANCE. A spe
cies of freehold estate in lands, otherwise called a “fee,” where the tenant is not only entitled to enjoy the land for his own life, but where, after his death, it is cast by the law upon the persons who successively represent him in perpetuum, ...
ESTATE UPON CONDITION. An es
tate tn lands, the existence of which depends upon the happening or not happening of some uncertain event, whereby the estate may he either originally created, or enlarged, or finally. defeated. 2 Bl. Comm. 151; 1 Steph. Comm. : 276; Co. Litt..20le, ...
Estate v. Congregational Church, 63 Vt
116, 21 Atl. 270; Everett v. First Presbyterian
Estate, 166 Pa
280, 81 Atl. 76; Andrews y.
Estate, 182 Cal
523, 60 Pac. 442, 84 Am. St
Estate, 26 Utah, 198, 72 Pac
942.—Direct line. Property is said to descend or be inherited in the direct line when it passes in lineal succession: from ancestor to son, grandson, great-grandson, and s0 on.—Direct payment. One which is absolute and unconditional as to the tim...
Estate, 29 Wash
422, 69 Pac. 1111. °
Estate, 41 Misc. Rep
378, 84 N. Y. Supp. 934; In re Maguire, 57 Cal. 606, 40 Am.
Estate, 7 ye
104, 50 86u, 75 Am. St. Rep. 882.—Trust in invitum. A constructive trust imposed by equity, contrary to,.the trustee’s intention and will, upon property in his hands. Sanford v. Hamner, 115
Estate, 70 Wis
522, 36 N. W. 407; Heuser v.
EVENINGS
him in the conveyance, it is sometimes expressed (in abstracts, etc.) to be by “A. B. et uz.”
EWAGE
(L. Fr. Ewe, water.) In old English law. Toll paid for water passage, The same as aguage. Tomlins.
EX COMMODATO
From or out of. loan. A term applied in the old law of England to a right of action arising out of a loan, (commodatum.) Glanv. lib. 10, c 13; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 166.
EX FACIE
From the face; apparently; evidently. A term applied to what appears on the face of a writing.
EX FAOTO
a fact or action; actually. Usually applied to an unlawful or tortious act as the foundation of a title, etc. Sometimes used as equivalent to “de facto.” Bract. fol. 172.
EX GRAVI QUERELA
(From or on the grievous complaint.) In old Hnglish practice. The name of a writ (so called from its initial words) which lay for a person to whom any lands or tenements in fee were devised by will, (within any city, town, or borough wherein lands we...
EX JUSTA CAUSA
From a just or lawful cause; by a just or legal title.
EX MUTUVUO
From or out of loan. In the old law of England, a debt was said to arise ex mutuo when one lent another anything which consisted in number, weight, or measure. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 159; Bract. fol. 99.
EX UTRISQUE PARENTIBUS CON
JUNCOTI. Related on the side of both parents; of the whole blood. Hale, Com. Law, rm 11.
EXANNUAL ROLL
to the court to direct an inquiry whether the applicant has any, and what, interest in the property; and this inquiry is called an “examination pro interesse suo.” Krippendorf v.
EXECUTOR
ministerial officer uhder the authority of a writ of execution which he has levied on property of, the debtor. Noland v. Barrett, 122 Mo. 181, 26
EXEMPLIFICATION
are joined in the execution of a will. —Limited . executor. An executor whose appointment is qualified by limitations as to the time or place wherein, or the subject-matter whereon, the office is to be exercised; as distinguished from one whose app...
Exley
52 W. Va. 476, 44 S. E. 149, 61 L. R. A. 057.—-Tenant in capite. In feudal and old English law. Tenant in chief; one who held immediately under the king, in right of his crown and dignity. 2 Bl. Comm. 60.—Tenant im common. ly defined to be such a...
EXPEDIMENT
goods and chattels, bag and baggage. ton.