Blanch Holding
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In Scotch law
A tenure by which land is held. The duty is generally a trifling one, as a peppercorn. It may happen, however, that the duty is of greater value, and then the distinction received in practice is founded on the nature of the duty. Stair, Inst. sec. iii. lib.
3, § 33. See Paterson, Comp. 15; 2 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 42.