rent-charge

• “He calculated everything that he had, and found that at the end of April, even when he should have received his rent-charge, there would not be five pounds in hand among them.”

  The Last Chronicle of Barset

• “A gentleman whose half-yearly rent-charge amounted to perhaps two hundred pounds might have nine tenths of that sum deducted from him for poor rates.”

  Castle Richmond

• “I have been long intending some time or other to change my place of residence, perhaps I shall go to Switzerland, and I have made up my mind to sell my rent-charge on the Dulchester estate.”

  Wylder's Hand

• “He laid it upon the land as a rent-charge, that he might keep up his title to the whole.”

  The Sermons of John Owen

• “In 1838 an Act was passed commuting the tithes into a rent-charge payable not by the occupiers but the landlords.”

  Is Ulster Right?

• “Irish landlords have been compared, not to English squires, but to the ground landlords of London, bound to the occupiers only in so far as they received from their tenants a rent-charge liable to increase as the tenant improved the holding, or as competition arose with the growth of population.”

  Ireland and the Home Rule Movement

• “Nine years after the Emancipation Act, tithe, which an English Prime Minister had declared was as sacred as rent, was by Act of Parliament commuted into a rent-charge no longer collected directly from the tenant, but paid by the landlord, who, however, compensated himself for its incidence on his shoulders by raising rents.”

  Ireland and the Home Rule Movement

• “When Charles Horton Ravenshoe returned once more to his paternal acres, it will be remembered he settled two thousand pounds a year, rent-charge on Ravenshoe, in favor of William Ravenshoe.”

  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.

• “Newburgh, grandson of Charles Radcliffe, beheaded in 1746, for his share in the rebellion of 1715, a clear rent-charge of £2,500 out of the estates forfeited by the said Charles Radcliffe, and his brother James, third Earl of Derwentwater, who forfeited his life on the same account in 1710, which estates had been settled upon Greenwich Hospital.”

  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria

• “So ardent and hot has been the chase after vestiges of this man, that the fact was once discovered that with his own hand he had written a certain deed concerning a feu-duty or rent-charge of £25,”

  The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author

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