(law) an estate whose duration is limited to the life of the person holding it 同义词：estate for life,
In common law and statutory law, a life estate is the ownership of land for the duration of a person's life. In legal terms it is an estate in real property that ends at death when there is a "reversion" to the original owner.
例句与用法
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A " life estate " （ my right to live in a certain house , for example , until i die ） , is a time segment ; so is a three - year lease of a farm or apartment house “终身地产” （如我住在某间房子直到我死的权利）是一个时间部分，对农场或公寓的三年出租也是时间部分。
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But by now , primary social economic structure has been break , when peasants have the impetus to leave the land and change the life estate , they also have the impetus to cast off the status astrict of " peasant " , and to be a " townsman " 而在今天，原来的社会经济结构被打破，当农民们有了离开土地、改变生活状态的冲动的同时，还有另外的要在身份上摆脱“农民”的束缚，做“城市人”的冲动。
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