Chief Rents
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[L. Lat. reditus capitales.] In English law. Rents of the freeholders of a manor.
2 Bl. Com. 42.
Called also quit rents (quieti reditus,) because thereby the tenant goes quit and free of all other services. Id. ibid.