Chief Pledge
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The borsholder or X3hieli of the borough.
Spelman.
CHIEF RENTS (Law Lat. reditus capitales).
In English law
Rents of the freeholders of a manor.
2 Bl. Comm. 42.
Called also "quit rents" (quieti reditus), because thereby the tenant goes quit and free of all other services.
Id.