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Examples
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Lausanne, he purchased from the President de Brosses a life-interest in Tourney, and in the same year (1758) he bought the lordship of Ferney, close by.
Voltaire 2007
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In half of that sum I have only a life-interest, to which, if I die, leaving a widow, my widow succeeds.
No Thoroughfare 2007
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Granvilles — the aforenamed mother agrees to settle her fortune absolutely on the girl, reserving only a life-interest.
A Second Home 2007
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Granvilles — the aforenamed mother agrees to settle her fortune absolutely on the girl, reserving only a life-interest.
A Second Home 2007
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To be miserable at this rate you must, at the very least, have four thousand a year: and many persons are there so enamored of grief and sin, that they would willingly take the risk of the misery to have a life-interest in the consols that accompany it, quite careless about consequences, and sceptical as to the notion that a day is at hand when you must fulfil YOUR SHARE OF THE
George Cruikshank 2006
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The chief feature in the business was that Mrs. Millborne found herself the absolute owner of a comfortable sum in personal estate, and Frances of a life-interest in a larger sum, the principal to be afterwards divided amongst her children if she had any.
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Madam Esmond in her enjoyment of the estate during her life, but that his father, it had always been understood, had given his kinsman a life-interest in the place, and only continued it to his daughter out of generosity.
The Virginians 2006
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There were two or three persons in the world (for I had not told my mother how I was resolved to cede to my brother all my life-interest in our American property) who knew that I had no mercenary motives in regard to the conduct I pursued.
The Virginians 2006
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More than one, no doubt, would have had no objection to share her life-interest in the estate, and supply the place of papa to her boys.
The Virginians 2006
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He had got his own property by an entail, and certainly never would have had an acre had his father been able to consume more than a life-interest.
John Caldigate 2004
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