What does life estate mean?

life estate means "(law) an estate whose duration is limited to the life of the person holding it".

What is another word for life estate?

Close synonyms include estate for life. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is life estate a common word?

life estate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Life estate — meaning and 1 synonym

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
(law) an estate whose duration is limited to the life of the person holding it
Synonymsestate for life
Broaderestate
Narrowerdower
law

Questions about life estate

What does life estate mean?: life estate means "(law) an estate whose duration is limited to the life of the person holding it".
What is another word for life estate?: Close synonyms include estate for life. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

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