Estate pur autre vie

Definition
: a life estate measured by the life of a third person rather than that of the person enjoying the property



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inevitable discovery

a doctrine in criminal law: evidence obtained by methods that are unconstitutional may be admissible if it would have been inevitably discovered without the unlawful methods


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