عُمْرَى

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عُمْرَى a subst., (إِسْمٌ [strangely read by Golius أَسْمَرُ], S, O,) or an Verbal.Noun, [or rather a quasiVerbal.Noun,] from أَعْمَرَهُ دَارًا and the like; A man's assigning to another a house for the life of the latter, or for the life of the former; a man's saying to another, of a house, or of land, or of camels, It is thine, or they are thine, for my life, or for thy life, and when thou diest it returns, or they return, to me; a man's giving to another a house, and saying to him, This is thine for thy life, or for my life: (Th, in TA: [in which is added, “ whichever of us dies, ” ايّنا مات, but this I consider a mistake for إِذَا مَاتَ, “ when he dies, ”) “ the house is given to his family: ”]) so they used to do in the Time of Ignorance: but some of the Muslim lawyers hold the gift to be absolute, and the condition to be null.
2 Also [The property, or house, &c., so given;] what is assigned, or given, to another for the period of his life, or for that of the life of the giver. [See also رُقْبَى.]

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