local. [? f. live(s), pl. of LIFE + -IER.] One who holds a tenement on a lease for a life or lives.
1883. T. Hardy, in Longm. Mag., July, 269. Many of these families had been life-holders…. The ‘liviers’ (as these half-independent villagers used to be called). Ibid. (1891), Tess (1900), 127/2. ‘Liviers’ were disapproved of in villages almost as much as little freeholders.
