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life interest

interest (in property) that is payable during a person's lifetime, but which cannot be passed on to another at death

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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