pernancy Law.
(ˈpɜːnənsɪ)
Also 7 purnancie.
[f. as pernable a. + -ancy: cf. AF. pernance = OF. prenance the action of taking into possession.]
The taking or receiving of anything; taking into possession; receipt, as of rents, tithes, etc.
| 1642 tr. Perkins' Prof. Bk. ix. §606. 262 If..a stranger is purnor of the rent and the grauntee doth surrender his deed by which the rent was made..the same shall extinguish the rent notwithstanding that the purnancie be made with the assent of the tenant of the land. 1670 Blount Law Dict., Pernancy.., a Taking or Receiving. Tythes in Pernancy, i. Tythes taken, or that be taken, in kind. 1766 Blackstone Comm. II. xi. 163 When the actual pernancy of the profits (that is, the taking, perception, or receipt,..) begins. 1818 Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) I. 254 [They] had an actual possession, or in our law-language, pernancy of the profits. |