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Rental

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

(Said to be corrupted from "rent-roll.") In English law. A roll on which the rents of a manor are registered or set down, and by which the lord's bailiff collects the same. It contains the lands and tenements let to each tenant, the names of the tenants, and other particulars. Cunningham; Holthouse.

Rental bolls. In Scotch law. When the tithes (tiends) have been liquidated aud settled for so many balls of corn yearly. Bell.

Rental-rights. In English law. A species of lease usually granted at a low rent and for life. Tenants under such leases were calied "rentalers" or "kindly tenants."