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  • noun Scotland, law One who has a liferent.

Etymologies

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life +‎ renter

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Examples

  • 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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