Tithes

In English law

The tenth part of the increase, yearly arising from the profits of lands, the stock on lands, and the industry of the inhabitants, being an ecclesiastical inheritance collateral to the estate of the land, and due only to an ecclesiastical person by ecclesiastical law. Tithes are, by statute 6 & 7 Will. IV., c. 71, commuted into a rent charge, annually adjusted with reference to the annual price of grain. Tithes are mixed, or such as do not arise immediately from the ground, but from things nourished by the ground, as calves, lambs, chickens, milk, cheese, etc.; personal, or such as arise by the industry of man, being the tenth part of the clear gain, after charges deducted; praedial, or such as arise immediately from the ground, as grain of all sorts, hay, wood, fruits and herbs.