Tack
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Abbott (1879)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In Scotch law. A contract of location by which the use of land or any other immovable subject is let to the lessee or tacksman for a certain yearly rent, either in money, the fruits of the ground, or services. Ersk. Inst. 2. 6. 8. This word is nearly synonymous with "lease."
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
n.
In Scotch law. A term corresponding to the English "lease," and denoting the same species of contract.
—'Tack duty. Rent reserved upon a lease.
v. To annex some junior lien to a first lien, thereby acquiring priority over an intermediate one. See Tacking.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
In Scots law. A contract by which the use of any thing is set or let for hire, for a certain time.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
II. Is a Scotch name for a lease; as in the following passage from Erskine: " Where neither the setter nor tacksman shall properly discover their intention to have the tack dissolved at the term fixed for its expiration, they are understood or presumed to have entered into a new tack, upon the same terms as the former."