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Terminable Property

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

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.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

This name is sometimes given to property of such a nature that its duration is not perpetual or indefinite, but is limited or liable to terminate upon the happening of an event or the expiration of a fixed term; e. g., a lcasehoid, a life-annuity, etc.