pernor

pernor [pur-ner, -nawr] Word Origin noun Law.

1. a person who takes or receives the rents, profits, or other benefit of an estate, lands, etc.

Origin of pernor 1300–50; Middle English pernour Anglo-French, metathetic variant of Old French preneor taker, equivalent to pren- (see pernancy) + -eor -or2