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life-rent, v.
[f. the n.]
trans. To assign in liferent; to use and enjoy property during one's life.
1700Edin. Gaz. 2–5 Sept., The Lands of Hiltoun..presently Life-rented by the Lady Rosyth, are to be Set in Tack by way of publick Roup. 1819Scott Let. 25 Nov. (1934) VI. 28 My wife's brother has left my children a considerable fortune which is at present life-rented by his lady. 1890J. Rankine Erskine's Princ. Law Scotl. (ed. 18) 218 And money may be liferented, the interest..being due to the liferenter. 1937St. Andrews Citizen 6 Mar. 2 The residue of his estate be life-rented to his sister. |