| 单词 | lifehold |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslifehold lifehold adj. Law (now historical) attributive designating property which is held for a life or lives. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [adjective] > held in freehold > types of charter-hold1710 lifehold1767 1767 J. T. Atkyns Rep. Cases Chancery 2 424 In 1734, he purchased one moiety of the reversion in fee of the lifehold estate, and the other moiety in 1737, and died soon after, without making any alteration in his will. 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon xvii. 428 Lifehold tenures. a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1851) 4th Ser. 359/2 My father's Aunt Hannah had a life-hold estate. 1887 Athenæum 31 Dec. 883/2 A small lifehold farm. 1954 W. G. Hoskins Devon v. 93 Life-hold tenure, as it was sometimes called, persisted in places into the later years of the 19th century, though the practice of renewal of lives was then quite obsolete. 1986 Manch. Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 28 Sept. 19 In practice, when a lifehold deed was extinguished by a final death, whoever was occupying the cottage in question continued to do so, though now paying rent to the landowner. < as lemmas |
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