Rent

A return or compensation for the possession of some corporeal inheritance, and is a certain profit, either in money, provisions, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements, in return for their use. Some of its common-law properties are that it must be a profit to the proprietor, certain in its character, or capable of being reduced to a certainty, issuing yearly, that is, periodically, out of the thing granted, and not be part of the land or thing itself.

Co. Litt. 47; 2 Bl. Comm. 41.

At common law there were three species of rent, — rent service, having some corporeal service attached to the tenure of tha was a reservation of rent, vrith a clause authorizing its collection by distress; and rent seek, where there was no such clause, but the rent could only be collected by an ordinary action at law. These distinctions, however, for all _ practical purposes, have become obsolete, in consequence of various statutes both in England and in this country, allovnng every kind of rent to be distrained for without distinction.

See Tayl. Landl. & Ten. § 370.