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Estate At Will

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

A species of estate less than freehold, where lands and tenements are let by one man to another, to have and to hold at the will of the lessor; and the tenant by force of this lease obtains possession.

2 Bl. Com. 145. 4 Kent's Com. 110.

Litt. sect.

68.

Or it is where lands are let without limiting any certain and determinate estate.

Id. 2 Crabb's Real Prop. 403, § 1643.

Cruise Dig. tit. ix. ch.

1.