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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...
- the Terrible, the monastery became a collection facility for metayage, quitrent, and fodder. In 1584, the tsar donated a substantial amount of money for...
- 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...
- of them could not pay the government their required land tax, called a quitrent. In 1781, the island's government tried to take back the land from proprietors...
- residents and the mostly-absentee proprietors over land ownership and quitrents plagued the province until its surrender to Queen Anne's government in...
- 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...
- representation in an ****embly that had power over public taxes, exemption from quitrents, and large grants of land. The Lords allowed settlers of any religion...
- an official on special ****ignments to supervise the po****ted lands and quitrent articles. From 27 May 1897, Akhriev was director of the Nukha branch of...
- a survey and census taken in order to enroll squatters and collect the quitrent required of settlers on his lands. Rensselaerville was created from part...
- serfdom: 1746 in Wallachia, 1749 in Moldavia). At the same time, he imposed a quitrent, a 12 days-corvée, and allowed the boyars a retinue of serfs (scutelnici)...