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Terminable Property

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Such property (e. g., leaseholds, terminable annuities, etc.), as has no permanent duration, but must and will end at a certain time, usually determined beforehand. TERMINARE (Lat.) In old English law. To end or determine; to dispose of judicially; to decide.