Definition of Estate from year to year
An example of an “estate for years” (q.v.). It exists in cases where the parties stipulate for it, and also where the parties by their conduct have placed themselves in the relation of landlord and tenant without adopting any other term. If a tenant has been allowed to hold over after the expiration of his term in such a way as to preclude the possibility of his becoming a tenant on sufferance, it is a tenancy from year to year. It was originally a development of a tenancy at will, by which the tenancy was terminable only at the time of the year at which it begem, and on notice.
That's the definition of Estate from year to year in Black's Law Dictionary 6th Edition. Courtesy of Cekhukum.com.
