life interest

interest on property that is payable during the owner's lifetime but cannot be passed on to another or others after his or her death.

Words nearby life interest

When he died, he left her a life-interest in his property amounting to six hundred a year.

Heart and Science |Wilkie Collins
The widow received a life-interest only in a portion of the testator's property.

No Name |Wilkie Collins
He was born only with the life-interest, and he has determined to treat it as though the fee-simple had belonged to him.

Mr. Scarborough's Family |Anthony Trollope
Mr. Rich leaves a single near relative, to whom is bequeathed the life-interest in his property.

Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters |Charles Darwin

He transferred to him a life-interest in a house in Venice, and two years afterwards my brother was ordained.

The Memoires of Casanova, Complete |Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

life interest

interest (esp from property) that is payable to a person during his life but ceases with his death