Blanche Firme
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A rent reserved, payable in silver. BLANCUS (Law Lat.)
In old law and practice. White, as paper or parchment is when there is no writing or other mark upon it; otherwise called albus. See "Album Breve." Hence the modem term "blank." Plain or smooth, as silver money that has no impression, or from which the impression has been worn.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A rent reserved, payable in silver.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Whiterent; arent BLASPHEMY. In Englishlaw. Blas. reserved, payable in silver. phemy is the offense of speaking matter re
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
Blanch fearme, Blanch firmey Blanchfarm. [L. Lat. alha firma, firma hlanca."] In old English law.^ White farm, or white rent, {reditus alhus); rent paid in silver and not in cattle. Spelman, voc. Firma alha» Rents reserved in silver, or white money, were anciently called white rents, blanchfarms, redditus alhi; in contradistinction to rents reserved in work, grain, or baser money, which were called redditus nigri, or hlack-mml. 2 Bl. Com. 42. 2 Inst. 44. See Alha firma. Farm. BLANCH (or BLENCH) HOLDING.
In Scotch law. A kind of tenure in which the vassal paid a small duty to the superior in full of all services, as an acknowledgment of his right, either in money, or in some other substance; as a penny money, a pair of gilt spurs, a pound of wax, or of pepper, (fee, nomine alba firmcs (in the name of white farm.) Ersk. Inst. b. 2, tit. 4, § 7. Considered by Blackstone the same with the blanch farms of the English law. 2 BL Com. 42, note (</). See Blanch ferme.