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Such an estate arises where one is a tenant in special tail and the person from whose body the issue was to spring dies without issue or, having left issue, that issue becomes extinct: in either of these cases, the surviving tenant in special tail becomes a tenant in tail after possibility of issue extinct. See 2 Bl. Comm. 124. In some jurisdictions, such a tenant by operation of law, becomes a tenant for life although he is not impeachable for waste . See Swavne v Lone Acre Oil Co., 98 Tex. 597, 86 S. W. 740.

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