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life estate

life estate noun: an estate in land which is owned by a party only for the duration of the life of that party, and for which ownership will revert to another upon the death of that party.

Noun

life estate (plural life estates)

  1. An estate in land which is owned by a party only for the duration of the life of that party, and for which ownership will revert to another upon the death of that party.

life estate meaning in Tamil

life estate in Tamil

ஆயுள் உரிமை

Synonyms of life estate

Forms of life estate

plurallife estates

Questions about life estate

What does life estate mean?
Life estate means an estate in land which is owned by a party only for the duration of the life of that party, and for which ownership will revert to another upon the death of that party.
What is life estate in Tamil?
Life estate in Tamil is ஆயுள் உரிமை. See Life estate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is life estate?
Life estate is a noun.
What is the plural of life estate?
The plural of life estate is life estates.

Words near life estate in the dictionary

  1. life cots
  2. life cycle
  3. life cycles
  4. life drawing
  5. life drawings
  6. life estate
  7. life estate pur autre vie
  8. life estates
  9. life estates pur autre vie
  10. life eternal
  11. life event

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Adapted from Wiktionary: life estate (page history and authors); life estate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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