apron-string tenure

obsolete A property or estate owned by a woman but controlled by her husband during her life and then by her family after her death. He has a vast property; it is but an apron-string tenure, though, and he shall be dispossessed of it when she passes.

Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

See also:

apron-string hold
mobilia sequuntur personam
layout
cheat (one) out of (something)
cheat out of
cheat
fact of the matter, the
legal duty
(the) right of way
lease back

词组	apron-string tenure
释义	apron-string tenure apron-string tenure obsolete A property or estate owned by a woman but controlled by her husband during her life and then by her family after her death. He has a vast property; it is but an apron-string tenure, though, and he shall be dispossessed of it when she passes. Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: apron-string hold mobilia sequuntur personam layout cheat (one) out of (something) cheat out of cheat fact of the matter, the legal duty (the) right of way lease back
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