Definitions
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- noun Scotland, law The right to receive for life the
benefits of aproperty or otherasset , without the right to dispose of it.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ogilvie of Airlie, to whom [as Abbot of Arbroath] he granted a liferent lease of the lands of Burnton of Ethie, and other lands near the place, for a small sum of money _and other causes_.
The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell
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On the 20th of July 1530, he granted her a liferent lease of the
The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell
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Comyne Bradwardine, alias Wauverley, in liferent, and the children of the said marriage in fee; and I made up a wee bit minute of an antenuptial contract, intuitu matrimonij, so it cannot be subject to reduction hereafter, as a donation _inter virum et uxorem. _ ''
The Waverley 1877
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Rose, my dear, we must not permit them to be a liferent burden upon the estate. ''
The Waverley 1877
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Bradwardine, ALIAS Wauverley, in liferent, and the children of the said marriage in fee; and I made up a wee bit minute of an ante-nuptial contract, INTUITU MATRIMONII, so it cannot be subject to reduction hereafter, as a donation INTER VIRUM ET UXOREM. '
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801
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No doubt they may in the interim sell the liferent of this place, with the books and furniture.
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801
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I was then in doubt whether I should fly my country or become avowedly bankrupt, and surrender my library and household furniture, with the liferent of my estate, to sale.
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801
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But, Rose, my dear, we must not permit them to be a liferent burden upon the estate. '
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801
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Nor have its advocates in every age, founded their plea on a d liferent hypothesis.
A review of ecclesiastical establishments in Europe : containing their history ... : and an essay tending to shew both the political and moral necessity of abolishing exclusive establishments, with answers to some principal objections Whatman, James, 1741-1798 1796
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The word2*» being found Gen. xiv, 14, is np proof, that the book was not written till above 330 years after Mofes, when Laim received this name: this name might be inferted by a fubfe - quent tramcrrber; or this might be a di liferent town from that men - ~
The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan 1796
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