Life Rent

In Scotch law. A right to use and enjoy a thing during life, the substance of it being preserved. A life rent cannot, therefore, be constituted upon things which perish in the use; and though it may upon subjects which gradually wear out by time, as household furniture, etc., yet it is generally applied to heritable subjects. Life rents are divided mto conventional and legal. The conventional are either simple or by reservation. A simple life rent, or by & separate constitution, is that which is granted by the proprietor in favor of another. A life rent by reservation is that which a proprietor reserves to himgelf in the same writing by which he cotav«ys the f* to another. Life rents by law arfe the terc Te and the curtesy (g. v.).

In Scotch law. An estate for life; a right to the use and enjoyment of an estate or thing for one's life, but without destruction of its substance. They are either legal, such as terce and curtesy, (g. v.,) or conventional, i. e., created by act of the parties. Conventional life-rents are either simple, where the owner of an estate grants a life-interest to another, or by reservation, where the owner, in conveying away the fee, reserves a life-estate to himself.

Defined under Life in Black's Law Dictionary.

In Scotch law. An estate for life; a right to the use and enjoyment of an estate or thing for one's life, but without destruction of its substance. They are either legal, such as terce and curtesy, (q. v.) or conventional, i. e., created by act of the parties. Conventional life-rents are either simple, where the owner of an estate grants a life-interest to another, or by reservation, where the owner, in conveying away the fee, reserves a life-estate to himself.

in Scotland, is a ee policy and public convenience reright to use and enjoy a thing dur- quires it should be so. 5 East, 428; ing life, the substance of it being Abbott on Sh. 225; 1 Marsh. on preserved. A life-rent cannot, there- Ins. 254; Park on Ins. 23; Wesk. fore, be constituted upon things which are on Ins. 328. perish in the use; and though it may LIGHTS. See Ancient Lights; upon subjects which gradually wear Windows. fight, and the unlawful deprivation of which by another amounts to a mayhem at common law. 1 Bi. Com. 130.