Tithes

In English law. The tenth part of the increase, yearly arising and renewing from the profits of lands, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the inhabitants. 2 Bl. Comm. 24. A species of incorporeal hereditament, being an ecclesiastical inheritance collateral to the estate of the land, and due only to an ecclesiastical person by ecclesiastical law. 1 Crabb, Real Prop. § 133.

— Great tithes. In English ecclesiastical law. Tithes of com, pease and beans, hay and wood. 2 Chit. Bl. Comm. 24, note; 3 Steph. Comm. 127.

— Mixed tithes. Those which arise not immediately from the ground, but from those things which are nourished by the ground, e. g., colts, chickens, calves, milk, eggs, etc. 3 Bum, Ecc. Law, 380 ; 2 Bl. Comm. 24.

— Minute tithes. Small tithes, such as usually belong to a vicar, as of wool, lambs, pigs, butter, cheese, herbs, seeds, eggs, honey, wax, etc.

— Personal tithes. tithes paid of such profits as come by the labar of a man's person ; as by buying and selling, gains of merchandise, and handicrafts, etc. Tomlins.

— Predial tithes. Such as arise immediately from the ground; as, grain of all sorts, hay, wood, fruits, and herbs.

— Tithe-free. Exempted from the payment of tithes.

— Tithe rent-charge. A rent-charge established in lieu of tithes, under the tithes commutation act, 1836, (St. 6 & 7 Wm. IV. c. 71.) As between landlord and tenant, the tenant paying the tithe rent-charge is entitled. in the absence of express agreement, to deduct it from his rent, under section 70 of the above act And a tithe rent-charge unpaid is recoverable by distress as rent in arrear. Mozley & Whitley.