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A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

A certain yearly profit in money, provisions, chattels or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements, in retribution for the use. V. Black rents; Chief rents; Fee-farm rent; Rack rent; White rents. Bent cliarge: a rent reserved on a conveyance of land in fee simple, or granted out of lands by deed, so called because the land is by the deed charged with a distress for payment Rent seclt: barren rent; a rent reserved by deed, but without any right of reversion, and without any clause of distress.

In English law

Rent service: rent reserved out of land held by fealty called from such service being