Temperance

It has no fixed legal in land to indicate the person entitled to a meaning as contradistinguished from its usu- particular estate, us tenant in common, by al import. It is habitual moderation in re- the curtesy, in dower, in fee, for life, in sevgard to the indulgence of the natural appe- eralty, at sufferance, in tail, at will, for tites and passions; restrained or moderate years, from year to year, and joint tenants. indulgence; moderation; as temperance in See the several titles relating to these estates. eating and drinking; temperance in the in- Tenant of the demesne is one who is tendulgence of joy or mirth. Web. Diet, in Peo- ant of a mesne lord; Ilamm. N. P. 392. Tenple v. Dashaway Ass’n, 84 Cal. 123, 24 Pac. ant by the manner is one who has a less es- 277, 12 L. R. A. 117. See Liquor Laws. tate than the fee in the land which remains