Sleeping Rent
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
A phrase used, especially in leases of coal-mines, to denote a fixed rent, as opposed to a rent varying with the profits.
Jones v. Shears, 2 Har. i- W. 43.