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Definition of Quitrent

Quitrent
Quitrent Quit"rent`, n. [Quit, a. + rent] (Law) 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.

Meaning of Quitrent from wikipedia

- Quit rent, quit-rent, or quitrent is a tax or land tax imposed on occupants of freehold or leased land in lieu of services to a higher landowning authority...
- who took care of their own household and had to pay chynsh (similar to quitrent). Those kholops, who had been house serfs were subject to poll tax (per-soul...
- for Wentworth himself. The permanent annual tax on each grant, called a quitrent, was one shilling, paid directly to the king or his representative. While...
- repurchase amount in the Non-Chernozem zone included capitalization of the quitrent. The cost of land purchased by peasants included the price of serf souls...
- influence has been more limited, e.g. the (1) introduction of perpetual quitrent and leasehold; (2) penetration of the English tort of nuisance into neighbour...
- Young, 1st Baronet in the 1767 land lottery. It was sold for arrears of quitrent in 1781 and a portion was granted to Loyalists in 1783. Lot 32 is the only...
- residents and the mostly-absentee proprietors over land ownership and quitrents plagued the province until its surrender to Queen Anne's government in...
- Muni****l Elections Ordinance (no. 8 of 1912). There was a portion of the quitrent farm "Cyferfontien" No. 2 in the District of Johannesburg, transferred...
- Francis MacLeane in the 1767 land lottery. It was sold in arrears for quitrent in 1781 and a portion was granted to Loyalists in 1783. Incorporated muni****lities:...
- the Terrible, the monastery became a collection facility for metayage, quitrent, and fodder. In 1584, the tsar donated a substantial amount of money for...