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- noun Scotland, law One who has a
liferent .
Etymologies
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life + renter
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Examples
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I say, since ye hae sae muckle consideration for me, I'se be blithe to accept your kindness; and my mother and me (she's a liferenter, and I am fiar, o 'the lands
The Black Dwarf 1898
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