Reditus Albi - Law Dictionary Search Results
Reditus albi
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White rents
White rents [reditus albi, Lat.], payments received in silver or white money, 2 Br. & Had. Com. 54; 1 Steph. Com.
Reditus nigri
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Alba firma
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.
Black mail
rents not paid in silver are called reditus nigri (black mail or rents), by way of distinction from reditus albi (blanch-firmes, or white-rents). But the term is used in modern times to signify extortion of money by threatening
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