Hypertext Webster Gateway: "quitrent"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Quitrent \Quit"rent`\, n. [Quit, a. + rent] (Law)
A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which
the tenant is quit from other service. --Blackstone.

Note: In some of the United States a fee-farm rent is so
termed. --Burrill.


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