life-rent

• “Then I suppose you had no notion, either, that a considerable portion of his wealth will come to your children, you and your wife having a life-rent of the capital.”

  An Enemy of the People

• “For this he had a plausible pretence; for he told me, there has been a custom in this family, that the laird resigns the estate to the eldest son when he comes of age, reserving to himself only a certain life-rent.”

  Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

• “Since at least the Romans, there have been attempts to tie land in particular to individuals, through various forms of benifice, life-rent or even outright ownership where transfer is illegal.”

  Question 3: Virtual Property

• “The heirs who sell, very often, instead of a sum of money, which is seldom at the command of the parties, take a life-rent payment or annuity of so much grain, the keep of so many cows, so much firewood, a dwelling-house on the property, or some equivalent of that kind.”

  The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886

• “Stirling, and Vicar of Kirkinner, granted a life-rent of the teinds of”

  The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)

• “The death of a father, to such of his children as live in the same house with him, is seldom attended with any increase, and frequently with a considerable diminution of revenue; by the loss of his industry, of his office, or of some life-rent estate, of which he may have been in possession.”

  II. Book V. Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the Society

• “Browning was no doubt least of all men inclined to pout at his "plain bun"; on the contrary, he was awake to the grandeur of his inheritance, and valued most highly "his life-rent of God's universe with the tasks it offered and the tools to do them with.”

  Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher

• “Sister Joan was to have £20, the testator's wearing apparel, and a life-rent in the Henley Street house, under the yearly payment of one shilling.”

  Shakespeare's Family

• “The landlord is the only one who can reclaim to advantage, and he can hardly be expected to do so on an entailed estate, for the benefit of his successors, at an enormous rate of interest, payable out of his life-rent.”

  The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad.

• “Scarcely has he shown himself when others fall on him; they cry that he must be killed, that he has a life-rent of 36,000 francs from the State, and "this will be so much saved for the nation.”

  The French Revolution - Volume 1

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