Reditus Nigri - Law Dictionary Search Results
Reditus nigri
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Alba firma
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
illegal. Also rent paid in cattle, otherwise called neat-gild; and all 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
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