quit-rents

quit-rents
Rents of assize of freeholders and of copyholders, the terminology deriving from the fact that upon paying them, the tenant was free of all other services to the lord of the manor. See 2 Bl Comm 42.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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