discontinuance of estate

discontinuance of estate
The termination or interruption of an estate tail by a grant by the tenant in tail of a larger estate than he had, thereby either defeating the estate of the tenant in tail or that of the remainderman or reversioner. See 3 Bl Comm 171.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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