Sc. [f. prec. + -ER1.] A person who is entitled to or enjoys a liferent.
1594. Sc. Acts Jas. VI. (1816), IV. 73/1. The heretouris and lyfrentaris of landis wthin townis and suburbis þeroff.
1599. James I., Βασιλικον Δωρον (1603), 83. Kingdomes are euer at God’s disposition, and in that case we are but liue-rentars.
1685. Sc. Proclam., in Lond. Gaz., No. 2032/2. All the Heretors, Liferenters, Feuars and Wodsetters in the Shires of Air [etc.].
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., Wks. V. 181. The temporary possessors and life-renters in it.
1832. Austin, Jurispr. (1879), II. l. 858. Like the usufruct of the old jus civile, liferent is personal to the liferenter.
1842. J. Aiton, Domest. Econ. (1857), 124. A minister is but a life-renter.
So Liferentrix, a woman who enjoys a liferent.
1692. Inv., in Scot. N. & Q. (1900), Dec., 92/1. Issobel Hackat … lyverentrix thereof.
1816. Scott, Old Mort., ii. Lady Margaret Bellenden liferentrix of the Barony of Tillietudlem.
1825. Law Reports, 9 App. Cases 329/2. The fee vested … to Anne Niblie, for her own interest, and in her or the liferentrix for behoof of the children nascituri.
