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ESTATE AT SUFFERANCE Definition & Legal Meaning

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The interest of a tenant who has come rightfully intopossession of lands by permission of the owner, and continues to occupy the same afterthe period for which he is entitled to hold by such permission. 1 Waslib. Real Prop. 392;2 Bl. Comm. 150; Co. Litt. 57b.

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