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Tenant for life

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

Black's Law Dictionary

One who holds lands or tenements for the term of his own life, or for that of any other person, (in which case he is calied "pur auter vie,") or for more lives than one.

2 Bl. Comm. 120; In re Hyde, 41 Hun (N. Y.) 75.