Alba Firma
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Alba firma. When quit-rents payable to the Crown by freeholders of manors were reserved in silver or white money, they were called white-rents or blanch-farms, reditus albi, in contradistinction to rents reserved in work, grain, etc., which were called reditus nigri, black-mail, 2 Inst. 19.
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