Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
life-land .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Land held by a life estate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Land held by a life estate.
Etymologies
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life + hold
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Examples
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"I told Giles's father when he came into those houses not to spend too much money on lifehold property held neither for his own life nor his son's," he exclaimed.
The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884
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“I told Giles’s father when he came into those houses not to spend too much money on lifehold property held neither for his own life nor his son’s,” he exclaimed.
The Woodlanders 2006
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