Redditus
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
or REDITUS. Something given back, and particularly a rent. Redditus siccus, or dry rent, was a term of old English law applied to rents for which the landlord in former times had no right to distrain. It was otherwise called rent-seek.
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