Sleeping Rent
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Abbott (1879)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
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).
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A fixed rent, as opposed to one varying with the profits. 2 Harr. & W. 43.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
In English law. An expression frequently used in coal-mine leases and agreements for the same. It signifies a fixed or dead, i. e., certain, rent, as distinguished from a rent or royalty varying with the amount of coals gotten, and is payable although the mine should not be worked at all, bnt should be sleeping or dead, whence the name. Brown.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
A phrase used, especially in leases of coal-mines, to denote a fixed rent, as opposed to a rent varying with the profits. Jones v. Shears, 2 Har. i- W. 43.