Determinable Frebholds
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Estates for life, which may determine upon future contingencies before the life for which they are created expires. As if an estate be granted to a woman during her widowhood, or to a man until he be promoted to a benefice; in these and similar cases, whenever the contingency happens, — when the widow marries, or when the grantee obtains the benefice, — the respective estates are absolutely determined and gone. Yet, while they subsist, they are reckoned estates for life; because they may by possibility last for life, if the contingencies upon which they are to determine do not sooner happen.
2 Bl. Comm. 121.