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life tenant

noun/ˈlaɪf ˌtɛnənt/

C1CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A person entitled to possession of land for the duration of their own or another's life.

As life tenant she could occupy the estate but could not commit waste against the remaindermen.

Similar: tenant for life

Topic: Property in Legal English

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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