So  chattels  real  being  personal  interests  in  real  property,
pass,  on  the  death  of  the  owner,  to  tlie  personal  representa-
tive, and  not  to  the  heir,  and  when  sold  on  execution  must


•See  Ante  dower,  page  74.
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be  sold  in  accordance  with  the  statutes  regulating  the  sale  of
personal  property.'

With  this  introduction  as  to  the  character  of  an  estate  for
years,  we  may  now  proceed  to  a  discussion  of  the  estate.
AN  ESTATE  FOB  YEAKS  IS  ONE  GBANTED  FOB,  A  GEE-
TAIN   DETERMINATE   PEBIOD.
It  is  not  necessary  that  the  determinate  period  should  be
a  year  or  morej  for,  as  Blackstone  says:  "If  the  lease  be  but
for  half  a  year  or  a  quarter  or  any  less  time,  the  lessee  is
respected  as  a  tenant  for  years,  and  is  styled  so  in  some  legal
proceedings;  a  year  being  the  shortest  term  the  law  takes
notice  of".^

The  person  granting  an  estate  for  years  is  usually  called
the  lessor  or  landlord,  and  his  grantee  is  called  the  lessee  or
tenant.
LAOTDLOED  AJSTD  TENAJSTT.
THE  RELATION  OF  LANDLORD  AND  TENANT.
It  is  important  to  a  clear  understanding  of  this  subject,
to  define  at  the  outset  what  the  relation  of  landlord  and  ten-
ant consists  of,  and  to  ascertain  what  are  its  essential  charac-
teristics. Various  rights,  duties  and  responsibilities  spring  out
of  the  relation  itself,  not  only  as  between  the  parties  to  it,
but  also  as  between  the  parties  and  those  who  are  strangers
to  the  contract.  Many  rights,  duties  and  responsibilities  are
inherent  in  the  relation,  irrespective  of  the  particular  pro-
visions of  the  lease  contract.
