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liferent Sc. Law.|ˈlaɪfrɛnt|
Also 5 lifrent, 6 lyf(e)rent, lyverent, 7 liffrent.
A rent which one is entitled to receive for life, usually for support; a right to use and enjoy property during one's life.
1491Sc. Acts Jas. IV (1814) II. 225/1 Landis gevin in coniunctfeftment or lifrent. 1535Ibid. 344/2 Þe wardatouris of sik landis [marg. add. ladyis of coniunct fee or lyfrent]. 1535Q. Margaret in St. Papers Hen. VIII (1836) V. 22 note, Ye maist partie of oure landis and lyverent lyis apoune ye Bordouris of Ingland. 1591Charter in A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock (ed. 4) 359 We have given..to our beloved cousin, Thomas, Lord Boyd, in free-holding, or life-rent [etc.]. 1754Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 510 If the person prosecuted for this crime shall be denounced for not appearing, his liferent..falls upon the denunciation. 1832Austin Jurispr. (1879) II. l. 858 Like the usufruct of the old jus civile liferent is personal to the liferenter. 1837Lockhart Scott 6 Feb. an. 1826 They would have had a right to his liferent at Abbotsford among other things.
b. attrib. and Comb., as liferent-infeftment, liferent right, liferent tack; liferent-escheat (see escheat 1 b).
1681Sc. Act in Lond. Gaz. No. 1649/3 They shall be..punished with the loss of their Moveables and *liferent Escheat.
1754Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 173 A *liferent-infeftment..or a liferent-tack, when assigned falls not under the assignee's liferent-escheat, but his single.
1842J. Aiton Domest. Econ. (1857) 156 A minister had only a *liferent right to his glebe.
1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 218 That the licence granted to beneficed persons to sett tacks be restrained either to a *liferent tack, or to a nineteen yeare tack allanerlie.
Hence life-rented a., charged with a liferent.
1720Lond. Gaz. No. 5890/3 Part of Calder, not Life⁓rented. |