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Home Dictionary Name: tithingTithe Rent-Charge
Tithe Rent-Charge. A charge on land, substituted by commutation for that charge on the produce of the land for the benefit of the Church, which was called tithe from being the tenth part of the increase yearly arising and renewing from the profits of lands, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the inhabitants; the first species being usually called pr'dial, the second mixed, the third personal.This commutation was effected by a procedure set on foot by the (English) Tithe Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 71), amended by subsequent Acts. See Chitty's Stat., tit. 'Tithe Rent-Charge.' The amount to be paid was annually adjusted, according to the price of corn.The commutation was effected in one of two ways-either by a voluntary parochial agreement, con-firmed by the commissioners, or by the compulsory award of the commissioners. The value, either voluntarily agreed upon or awarded by the commissioners, was considered as the amount of the total rent-charge to be paid in respect of ...
Mixed tithes
Mixed tithes, tithes of wool, milk, pigs, etc., consisting of natural products, but nurtured and preserved in part by the care of man. See Com. Dig., tit. 'Dismes' (F. 2), and post, TITHES....
Copyhold, Inclosure, and Tithe Commissioners
Copyhold, Inclosure, and Tithe Commissioners, a board constituted under the (English) Inclosure Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict.c.118). The powers of these commissioners, of the copyhold commissioners, and of the tithe commissioners, were by s. 48 of the Settled Land Act, 1882, vested in one board called 'the Land Commissioners,' whose powers were in their turn transferred to the Board of Agriculture (now the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries), by the (English) Board of Agriculture Act, 1889....
Privy tithes
Privy tithes, small tithes....
Rate-tithe
Rate-tithe, when any sheep or other cattle are kept in a parish for less time than a year, the owner must pay tithe for them pro rata, according to the custom of the place, Fitz. N. B. 51....
Rectorial tithes
Rectorial tithes, great or predial tithes....
Small tithes
Small tithes [otherwise called privy], all personal and mixed tithes, and also hops, flax, saffrons, potatoes, and sometimes, by custom, wood, 2 Steph. Com...
Teding-penny, Tething-penny, Tithing-penny
Teding-penny, Tething-penny, Tithing-penny, a small duty to the sheriff from each tithing, towards the charge of keeping courts, etc., from which some of the religious houses were exempted by royal charter....
Tithe Commissioners
Tithe Commissioners, appointed under the Tithe Act, 1836, s. 2; now superseded. See LAND COMMISSIONERS and next title....
Tithing
Tithing, a Saxon subdivision of the hundred, replacing the name of township as the unit of local administration (see Stubbs's Constitutional History, vol. i. p. 85) in some parts of England, the name still existing in Somersetshire and Wiltshire; the number or company of ten men with their families, knit together in a society, all of them being bound to the king for their peaceable and good behaviour, the chief of whom was called the tithing-man. See TOWNSHIP....
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