General Occupant
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Atcommon law where a man was tenant pur auter vie, or had an estate granted to himself only ( without mentioning his heirs) for the life of another man, and died without alienation during the life of cestwi que cie, or him by whose life it was holden, he that could frst enter on the land might lawfully retain the possession, so long as cestud que vie lived, by right of occupancy, and was hence termed a “general” or common “occupant.”
1 Steph. Comm. 415.