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Lord in Gross, he who is lord, not by reason of any manor, but as the king in respect of his crown, etc. Very lord, is he who is immediate lord to his tenant; and very tenant, he who holds immediately of that lord. So that, where there is lord paramount, lord mesne, and tenant, the lord paramount is not very lord to the tenant....
Per qu' servitia
Per qu' servitia, a judicial writ issuing from the note of a fine; it lay for cognisee of a manor, seigniory, chief rent, or other services to compel him who was tenant of the land at the time of the note of the fine levied, to attorn unto him, Old N.B. 155....
Reve, or Greve
Reve, or Greve, the bailiff of a franchise or manor, an officer in parishes within forests, who marks the commonable cattle...
Reve
Reve, means the bailiff of a franchise or manor, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1319....
Reprises
Reprises, deduction and payments out of a manor or lands, as rent-charges, annuities....
Rent
Rent [fr. reditus Lat.], a certain profit issuing yearly out of lands and tenements corporeal; it may be regarded as of a two fold nature--first, as some-thing issuing out of the land, as a compensation for the possession during the term; and secondly, as an acknowledgment made by the tenant to the lord of his fealty or tenure. It must always be a profit, yet there is no necessity that it should be, as it usually is, a sum of money; for spurs, capons, horses, corn, and other matters, may be, and occasionally are, rendered by way of rent; it may also consist in services or manual operations, as to plough so many acres of ground and the like; which services, in the eye of the law, are profits. The profit must be certain, or that which may be reduced to a certainty by either party; it must issue yearly, though it may be reserved every second, third, or fourth year; it must issue out of the thing granted, and not be part of the land or the thing itself.Consideration paid, usu. periodically...
Redmans, or Radmans
Redmans, or Radmans, men who, by the tenure or custom of their lands, were to ride with or for the lord of the manor about his business, Domesday....
Reditus albi
Reditus albi, white rents-quit-rents by freeholders or ancient copyholders of a manor, reserved in silver or white money, 2 Bl. Com. 42....
Redditarium
Redditarium, a rental of an estate or manor....
Purprise
Purprise [fr. purprisum, law Lat.], a close or in-closure; as also the whole compass of a manor....
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