habendum
C2CEFR level
98/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
The clause in a conveyance defining the estate or interest granted, traditionally the 'to have and to hold' clause.
The habendum limited the grant to an estate for life rather than an absolute interest.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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