From your descriptions (rather than the notes which I don't have):
Annuity payable to y on death of x, but ceasing at time n.
No matter what happens, there are no payments after time n (from now).
Say n = 10 and x dies 5 years from now, then payments will be made from t=5 to t=10 (once y is alive).
Annuity payable to y on the death of x for a maximum of n years.
Here the "n years" starts when x dies.
Again take n = 10 with x dying in 5 years.
Payments made from t=5 until t=15 (or death of y if earlier)
I assumed that these were life annuities (ie payable for life of y), but you could take out the condition on life status of y for annuities certain.
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