What is a rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit from other service. Blackstone. Note: In some of the United States a fee-farm rent is so termed. Burrill called?
quitrent — A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit from other service. Blackstone. Note: In some of the United States a fee-farm rent is so termed. Burrill. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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