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Chief Rents

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Chief-rents [fr. Reditus capitales, Lat.], the annual payments of freeholders of manors; also denominated quit rents (quieti reditus), because thereby the tenant goes free of all other services. See MANOR.

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