Chapter LIII

§1. What is an estate of inheritance? A _fee_? A _fee-simple_?

§2. What is the writing which conveys an interest in lands for a limited period called? What means to lease? Define lessor and lessee. What lenses must be sealed?

§3. How are these limited interests in land divided? What is an estate for life? How, otherwise than by lease, are life estates acquired?

§4. What is an estate for years?

§5. May a lessee for years underlet without the lessor's leave? For how long a time?

§6. Who is entitled to the growing crop if the lease expires before harvest? In what case the tenant?

§7. Does the destruction of rented premises release the tenant from payment of rent? In what case would he not be liable?

§8. Can a tenant charge his landlord for repairs? What may he do when the premises have become unsafe or useless?

§9. Where and when must payment of rent be made or tendered?

§10. What is an estate at will? Are such estates common? In what case are they held to be tenancies from year to year? What if a tenant for years hold over after his lease?

§11. What turns leases from uncertain terms into leases from year to year? Who is strictly a tenant at will? Can he be dispossessed without previous notice to quit?

§12. What is an estate at sufferance? What are the rights of a landlord and a tenant by sufferance, respectively?