pernor

[ pur-ner, -nawr ]
/ ˈpɜr nər, -nɔr /

noun Law.

a person who takes or receives the rents, profits, or other benefit of an estate, lands, etc.

Origin of pernor

1300–50; Middle English pernour < Anglo-French, metathetic variant of Old French preneor taker, equivalent to pren- (see pernancy) + -eor -or2

Words nearby pernor

pernicious vomiting, pernickety, pernik, pernio, pernod, pernor, pero-, perodactyly, peromelia, peroneal, peroneal artery