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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In Scotch law

A payment of fowls, etc., reserved in a lease. It is derived from canum, a word used in ancient grants to signify fowls or animals deliverable by the vassal to his superior as part of the reddendum.

Ersk. Inst. 11. 10. 32; 2 Boss, Lect. 236, 405.