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Quit rent (quietus redditus), a rent payable to the lord by a freeholder or ancient copyholder of a manor, so called because thereby the tenant goes quit and free of all other services, 2 Bl. Com. 42. As no manor has been created since the statute Quia Emptores (see MANOR; QUIA EMPTORES), every quit rent must have become first payable at a date prior to that statute.A quit rent may be 'redeemed' by the owner of the land subject thereto, under s. 45 of the Con-veyancing Act, 1881, reproduced by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 191. Also to the remedies for non-payment, see s. 121 and ibid.Means a payment to a feudal lord by a freeholder or copyholder, so called because upon payment the tenant goes 'quit and free' (discharged) of all other services, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1262....
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...
Chief-rents
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....
Notice to quit
Notice to quit. Where there is a tenancy from year to year subsisting, it can only be put an end to by notice to quit, which may be given by either party, and must be given one half-year previously to the expiration of the current year of tenancy, so as to expire at the same period of the year in which the tenant entered upon the premises. This rule is to be invariably followed in all cases, except where there is some special agreement between the parties to a different effect, or where a particular local custom intervenes, or where the (English) Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923, applies, in which case, by s. 25 of that Act, a notice must be given to terminate the tenancy twelve months from the end of the then current year of the tenancy.Where the term of a lease is to end on a precise day, there is no occasion for a notice to quit previously to bringing an action of ejectment because both parties are equally apprised of the termination of the term. If a tenant continue in possession by...
Double Rent
Double Rent. This is a penalty on a tenant holding over after his own notice to quit has expired. B the Distress for Rent Act, 1737 (11 Geo. 2, c. 19), s. 13,in case any tenant give notice to quit, and shall not deliver up possession at the time in such notice contained, he must from thenceforward pay to the landlord double the rent or sum which he should otherwise have paid. As to the effect of the Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions Acts, 1920 and 1923, see Flannagan v. Shaw, (1920) 3 KB 96; Barton v. Fincham, (1921) 2 KB 299; Northcotte v. Roche, 37 TLR 364. See Woodfall's Landlord and Tenant...
Foras
Foras, is derived from the Portuguese word 'fora', (Latine 'foras', 'foris' a door), signifying outside. It indicates the rent or revenue derived from outlying lands. The whole island of Bombay fell under that denomination when under Portuguese rule, being then a mere outlying dependency of Bassein. Subsequently the term 'foras' was, for the most part, though perhaps not quite exclusively, limited to the new salt batty ground reclaimed from the sea, or other waste ground lying outside the Fort, Native Town, and other the more ancient settled and cultivated grounds in the island, or to the quit-rent arising from that new salt batty ground and outlying ground. Thus, the salt batty lands reclaimed from the sea came to be known as Foras lands by association with the assessments payable thereon called 'Foras', Collector of Bombay v. Nusserwanji Rattanji Mistri, (1955) 1 SCR 1311: AIR 1955 SC 298 (302)....
Alba firma
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....
Land-gabel
Land-gabel, a tax or rent issuing out of land. Spelman says it was originally a penny for every house. This land-gabel, or land-gavel, in the Register of Domesday, was a quit-rent for the site of a house, or the land whereon it stood; the same as what we now call ground-rent....
Forgabulum, or Forgavel
Forgabulum, or Forgavel, a quit-rent; a small reserved rent in money, Jac. Law Dict....
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....
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