单词 | three-life |
释义 | > as lemmasthree-life three-life adj. applied to a system of tenure under which (till 1854) land (esp. ecclesiastical and college estates) was held during the joint lives of three persons or the longest liver of them. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [adjective] > freehold > type of three-life1898 commonhold1978 1898 A. F. Leach Beverley Act Bk. I. p. xlv In 1300, one of the Canons leased, on the usual three-life system, some of the lands of his prebend. < as lemmas |
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