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 2008

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 2008

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 2006

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 2006

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 2006

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 Various

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

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

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 1909

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.

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

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 Henry Jones 1887