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Estate In Possession

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

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 tenant is in actual pernancy or receipt of the rents and other advantages arising therefrom.

2 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 958, § 2322. Eberts v. Fisher, 44 Mich. 551, 7 N. W, 211; Sage v. Wheeler, 3 App. Div. 38, 37 N. Y. Supp. 1107.