Estate For Years
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A species of estate less than freehold, where a man has for some fixed and determinate period of time; as in the ease where lands are Jet 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.
Biackstone calls this estate a “contract” for the possession of lands or tenements for some determinate period.
2 BI. Comm. 140.