A wrlt for a wlfe judicially separated to recover her all-mony or estovers, obsolete
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An allowance made to a person out of an estate or other thlng for hls or her support, as for food nnd raiment
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To stop, bar, or Impede; to pre* vent; to preclude. Co. Litt 352a. See Es-TOPPEL
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A bar or impedlment rais-ed by the law, which precludes a man from alleging or from denying a certain fact or state of facts, in consequence of his previous allegation or denial or conduct or admission, or in’consequence of a final adjudication of the matter in a court of law. Demarest v. Hopper, 22 N. J. Law, 619; Martin v. Rail-road Co., 83 Me. 100, 21 AU. 740; Veeder v. Mudgett, 95 N. Y. 295; South v. Deaton, 113 Ky. 312, 68 S. W. 137; wilkins v. Suttles, 114 N. C. 550, 19 S. E. 606
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This word is used to ex-press the mind or judgment of the speaker or writer on the particular subject under con-sideration. It implies a calculation or com-putation, as to estimate the gain or loss of au enterprise. People v. Clark, 87 Hun (N. Y.> 203
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The lords spiritual, the lords temporal, aud the commons of Gveat Britain. 1 Bl. Comm. 153. Sometimes called the “three estates.”
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Estate for another’s life. An estate in lands which a man holds for the life of another person. 2 Bl. Comm. 120; Lltt | 56
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An estate in land or other real property, of uncertain duration; that is, either of inheritance or which may possibly last for the life of the tenant at the least, (as distlngulshed from a leasehold;) and held by a free tenure, (as dis-tinguished from copyhold or villelnage
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A species of freehold estate in lands, otherwlse called a “fee,” where the tenant is not only entitled to enjoy the land for his own llfe, hut where, after his death, it is cast by the law upon the persons who successlvely represent him in perpetuum, in right of blood, ac* cording to a certaln establlsbed order of de-scent. 1 Steph. Comm. 218; Lltt $ 1; Nellis v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 N. E. 739; Roulston v. Hall, 66 Ark. 305, 50 S. W. 690, 74 Am. St Rep. 97; Ipswich v. Topsfield, 5 Metc. (Mass.) 351; Brown v. Freed, 43 Ind. 256
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An estate held by a person in his own right only, with* out any other person being joined or connected with him in point of interest, during his estate. This is the most common and usual way of holding an estate. 2 Bl. Comm. 179; Cruise, Dig. tit. 18, c. 1, $ 1
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An estate in gage or pledge. 2 Bl. Comm. 157; 1 Steph. Comm. 282
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An estate limited to take effect in possession, or in enjoyment, or in both, subject only to any term of years or contingent interest that may intervene, immediately after the regular ex-piration of a particular estate of freehold previously created together with it, by the same instrument, out of the same subject of property. 2 Fearne, Rem. § 159; 2 BL Comm. 163; 1 Greenl. Cruise, Dig. 701
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A species of estate in expectancy, created by opera^ tlon of law, being the residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted out by him. 2 Rl. Comm. 175; 2 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 978, 8 2345. The residue of an estate left in the grantor or his heirs, or in the heirs of a testator, commenc-lng in possession on the determination of a particular estate granted or devised. 1 Rev. St N. Y. p. 71S, (723.) $ 12. An estate in reversion is where any estate is derived, by
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An estate in lands or tenements granted to two or more persons, to hold in fee-simple, fee-tall, for life, for years, or at will. 2 Bl. Comm. 180; 2 Crabb, Real Prop. 937. An estate acquired by two or more persons in the same land, by the same title, (not being a title by descent,) and at the same period; and without any limitation by words importing that they are to take in distinct shares
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An estate whereby a present Interest passes to and resides in the tenant, not depending on any subsequent circumstance or contingency. 2 Bl. Comm. 163. An estate where the ten-ant is in actual pernancy, or receipt of the rents and other advantages arising therefrom
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The estate which a man has where ‘lands are given to him and to his heirs absolutely without any end or limit put to his estate. 2 Bl. Coram. 106; Plowd. 557; 1 Prest. Est. 425; Lltt. i 1. The word “fee,” used alone, is a sufll
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An estate 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. Comm. 188. See Coparcenary
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A species of life-estate which a woman is, by law, entitled to clalm on the death of her husband, in the lands and tenements of whlch he was seised in fee during the marriage, and which, her issue, lf any, might hy possibility have inherited. 1 Steph. Comm. 249 ; 2 Bl. Comm. 129; Cruise, Dig. tit 6; 2 Crabb, Real Prop, p. 124, | 1117; 4 Kent, Comm. 35. See Dowbb
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A species of es-tate less than freehold, where a man has an lnterest in lands and tenements, and a possesslon thereof, by virtue of such interest, for some fixed and determinate period of time; as in the case where lands are let for the term of a certain number of years, agreed upon between the lessor and the lessee, and the lessee enters thereon. 1 Steph. Comm. 263, 264. Blackstone calls this estate a “con-tract” for the possession of lands or tene-ments for some determinate period. 2 Bl. Comm. 140. See Hutcheson v. Hodnett, 115 Ga. 990, 42 S. El 422; Despard v. Churchill, 53 N. Y. 192; Brown ▼. Bragg, 22 Ind. 125
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An estate in lands held by two or more persons, wlth interests accruing nnder dlfferent titles; or accruing under the same title, hut at different periods; or conferred by words of limitation Importing that the grantees are to take in distinct shares. 1 Steph. Comm. 323. See Tcnancy in Comuon
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