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133: 25: 818:, either without restrictions (in the case of fee simple), or with restrictions (in the case of fee tail). The estate for years and the life estate are estates not of inheritance; the owner owns nothing after the term of years has passed, and cannot pass on anything to his or her heirs. 772:
interest is the most complete ownership that one can have of property in the common law system. An estate can be an estate for years, an estate at will, a
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and other estates that are not of inheritance. The fee simple estate and the fee tail estate are estates of inheritance; they pass to the owner's heirs
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estate (to the heirs of one's body) or some more limited kind of heir (e.g. to heirs male of one's body).
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Legal estates and interests are called rights "in rem", and said to be "good against the world".
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Fay, Scott; Hurst, Erik; White, Michele J. (June 2002). "The Household Bankruptcy Decision".
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to allow a person significant resources to restart his or her financial life. In the
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Superimposed on the legal estate and interests in land, English courts created "
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Depending on the particular context, the term is also used in reference to an
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at a given time. The issue is of special legal significance on a question of
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is said to have an equitable interest in the property.
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