pernancy
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Anglo-Norman pernance, from Old French prenance, from prendre, prenre, penre (“to take”), from Latin prendere, prehendere.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pernancy (usually uncountable, plural pernancies)
- (law, obsolete) 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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[edit]References
[edit]- “pernancy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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