Terce
one of the two legal life rents in the law of Scotland, being a real right constituted without covenant, or sasine. By it a widow, who has not accepted any special provision, is entitled to the life rent of one-third of her husband's heritable (real) estate, provided the marriage has lasted for a year and a day, or has produced a living child.
If special provision is granted by a husband to his wife by any antenuptial or postnuptial contract or other deed, the wife shall be thereby excluded from her terce, unless the contrary be provided in the same deed. The life rent bears its proportion of burdens affecting the estate. The mansion house is not subject to the right of terce. ject to the right of terce. one of the Azores; greatest length, 20 miles; average breadth, 13 miles; area, 223 square miles. The soil possesses great natural fertility, and heavy crops of oranges, lemons, and other fruits are produced; capital, Angra. Pop. about 50,000.