Alba Firma

Defined in 8 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

White rents; rents reserved payable in silver, or white money. They were so called to distinguish them from reditus nigri which were rents reserved payable in work, grain, and the like. 2 Inst. 19.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Rent payable in silver.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

White rents; rents reserved payable in silver, or white money. They were so called to distinguish them from reditus nitjri, which were rents reserved payable in work, grain, and the like. Coke, 2d Inst. 19.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In old English law. White rent; rent payable in sliver or white money, as distinguished from that which was anciently paid in corn or provisions, called black mall or black rent. Spelman; Reg. Orig. 319b.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

1. 1 In old English law. White rent; money rent; rent payable in silver as distinguished from rent payable in com or provisions, called redditiis nigre, or black rent

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In old English law. White rent; rent payable in silver or while money, as distinguished from that which was ancieatly paid in corn or provisions, called black mail, or black rent. Spelman; Reg. Orig. 3199.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

/. White rent; rent payable in silver, as distinguished from black rents, black mail, payable in corn, work, or the like. Album breve: a blank writ. Aleatory; v. Contract. Hazardous, uncertain.

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

Lat. \L.¥t. blanche fearm^.] White farm, or rent; blanch farm. Rent payable in silver, or white money, (argento quasi censu albo,) as distinguished from that which was anciently paid in com or provisions, (m annona,) called black mail, or black rent, {census vel firma nigra.) Spelman. Beg. Orig. ^19 h. To hold by white farm is to hold freely in socage. 2 Inst. 44. See Firma, Farm, Blanch ferme.