Annual Rent
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In Scotch law. Interest. To avoid the law against taking interest, a yearly rent was purchased, hence the term
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
In Scotch Law. Interest. To avoid the law agafnst taking interest, a yearly rent was purchased; hence the term came to signify Interest; Bell, Diet.; Patcrson, Comp. §§ 19, 265.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
In Scotch law. Yearly interest on a loan of money.
Defined under Annual in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
In Scots law. Interest of money; the profit of money invested in purchase of a yearly rent of land, to evade the law vphich before the reformation forbade lending at interest.