life estate in English
noun
(Law) estate or property that belongs to a person only during his/hers lifetime and can only be sold or transferred after the death of said perso
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1. Usually, dower was the right of a widow to a one-third life estate in the property owned by the husband during the marriage and Curtesy was the right of a widower to a life
2. Curtesy (noun) the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands