Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rent paid by a freeman in lieu of the services required by feudal custom.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Rent paid by the freeholders and copyholders of a manor in discharge or acquittance of other services. Also called
chief-rent .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit from other service.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant isquit (absolved) from other service.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Note 32: The quitrent system initiated after 1813 entailed an annual rent based on a valuation of the property, limited mineral rights, and a stronger sense of perpetuity of ownership than the previous loan farm system.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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A good number of those farms were then converted to the quitrent system under British administration of the Cape. 32 Several of the original farm names still exist today, though the boundaries have changed numerous times in the interval.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Penn advertised for colonists, and began selling land at 100 pounds for five thousand acres, and annually thereafter a shilling quitrent for every hundred acres.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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A farm, free for five years, was offered to any one "having a good musket... and six months' provisions," who should embark with the governor, while those who came later were to pay a half-penny an acre quitrent.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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In England, the quitrent system was the end-stage in a long process which liberalized the position of a tenant of land.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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The quitrent system never took root in New England.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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The quitrent system never took root in New England.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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In England, the quitrent system was the end-stage in a long process which liberalized the position of a tenant of land.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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In England, the quitrent system was the end-stage in a long process which liberalized the position of a tenant of land.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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The quitrent system never took root in New England.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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