pernancy
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman pernance, from Old French prenance, from prendre, prenre, penre (“to take”), from Latin prendere, prehendere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɜː(ɹ)nənsi/
Noun
pernancy (usually uncountable, plural pernancies)
- (law) A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
- pernancy of the profits
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pernancy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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