Sleeping Rent
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
An expression used in English coal-mine leases to indicate a fixed rent, as distinguished from a rent based on the output. It is said to be so called because payable though the mine was "sleeping" (unworked).