perpetuity

How To Use perpetuity In A Sentence

• Settlers brought with them the idea of land as a partible, bounded commodity, owned by an individual (or self-selected partnership), transferable, and exclusive in perpetuity. Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
• The site of the memorial is granted in perpetuity to Canada.
• Their heirs would inherit the crowns of England and France in perpetuity. Malory: The Life and Times of King Arthur's Chronicler
• An annuity in perpetuity does not have a fixed time span but continues indefinitely and receipts can therefore only come from interest earned. Collins Dictionary of Economics
• an annuity paid in perpetuity
• Pictorially, for Louis de Roncherolles there is no escape; he is trapped for perpetuity within a closed circle of mourning and death.
• desire happiness in perpetuity
• Suppose that the firm invests in a new project which is expected to produce the same yearly income in perpetuity. Principles of Corporate Finance
• The certainty of one more day’s affection, which she gained by silence, outvalued the hope of a perpetuity combined with the risk of all. A Pair of Blue Eyes
• The tribes, whose treaties guaranteed them the right to harvest sucker and salmon in perpetuity, filed lawsuits demanding protection for the fish.