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Quasi-entau

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

A quasi entail exists when an estate pur autre vie is limited to a person and the heirs of his body.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

An estate par autre vie to a man and the heirs of his body. t The interest so granted is not properly an estate tail, but so far in the nature of one that it will go to the heir of the body as special occupant during the life of the cestut que vie in the same manner as an estate of inheritance would descend, if limited to the grantee and the heirs of his body.