Annua Pensione

See "De Annua Pensione."

An ancient writ to provide the king’s chaplain, if he had no preferment,with a pension. Reg. Orig. 165, 307.

See i>e annua pmsione. ANNUATIwf^ L.Lat. Annually. Beg. Jud. Appendix, 9. ANNUITY; [L. Lat« annHUS*fe MityksI\ 19 A yearly payment of a certain sum of money, granted to another in fee, for life or years, charging the person of the grantor only. Co. Litt. 144 b. 2 Bl. Com. 40. 3 Kenfs Com. 460. In this respect it differs froma rent chaige, which is chargeable upon, and is* sues out of land. 2 Bl. Com. 41. See Com, Dig. Annuity. United States Digest, Annuitv. llie name of an action, now disused, t Lat. breve de annuo redditu,) which lay br the recovery of an annuity. Beg. Orig. 158 b. Bract, fol. 203 b. 1 Tidd's Fr. 3. See De annuo redditu.

In a general sense, a yearly or stated payment of money. See infra. An annuity, it is said, has been frequently confounded with a rent charge, from which it is a very distinct thing. 2 Bl. Com, 40. In point of fact the term rent, (L. Fr. retite, L. Lat. redditus,) was originally employed to denote both; a rent proper, or rent charge, being called rent from a tenement, {redditus proveniens ex tenemenio,) and an annuity, rent from the coffer, (rente de chambre, r&iditus proveniens ex cam^a); the term rent itself being used in the general sense of a payment or retum of any kind. Britt. c. 68. Bract, fol. 203. b. Beg. Orig. 168 b. regula. 2 Beeves' Hist. E. L. 258. See Bent, Camera. The adoption of the term annuity would have sufficiently expressed the dis* tinction between these two kinds of rents or payments, had it not been for. the phrase annuus redditus, by jrhich it continued to be expressed in ^tm. This is constantly translated in the old books (as by Fitzherbert from the iftegister^ an annual or yearly rent, which probably led to the confusion spoken of by Blackstone. F. N. B. 152, A.B. See Dyer, 55 b. Cro. Car. 170. Lord Coke, in his definition of annuity, {supra,) very properly gives to redditus its general sense.of payment. See Annuus redditus. In modem law, the distinction between the terms rent and annuity appears to be well settled. The anomalous character of an annuity itself, however, has sometimes led to confusion. Though not belonging to the class of things real, a man may have an estate of inheritance in it, that is, it may be made descendible to his heirs. 2 Stepk, Com. 26. An annuity in fee is personal estate sub modo, and is sometimes ca Ued a personal fee. 3 Kent's Com. 460, and note.