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Ground Annual

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

In Scotch law. An annual rent of two kinds: First, the feuduties payable to the lords of erection and their successors; second, the rents reserved for building lots in a city, where sub-feus are prohibited. This rent is in the nature of a perpetual annuity. Bell, Diet.; Ersk. Inst. 11. 3. 52.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

(Scotch) An annual rent.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In Scotch law. An annual rent of two kinds: First, the feu duties payable to the lords of erection and their successors ; second, the rents reserved for building lots in a city, where sub-feus are prohibited. This rent is in the nature of a perpetual annuity. Bell; Ersk. Inst 11, 3, 52,

Defined under Ground in Black's Law Dictionary.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In Scotch law. An annual rent of two kinds: Jirst, the feu duties payable to the lords of erection and their successors; se-ond, the rents reserved for building lots ina city, where swb-feus are prohibited. This rent is in the nature of a perpetual annuity. Bell,; Ersk. Inst, 11, 3, 52.

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

In Scotch law. A ground rent payable out of the ground before the tenement in a burgh is built; used in contradistinction to the term feuannual. Scotch Diet.