Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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RENTS. ISSUES, AND PROFITS

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to which the land was originally liable. Brown. RENTAGE. Rent. RENTAL. (Said to be corrupted from "rent-roll.") In English law. A roll on which the rents of a manor are registered or set down, and by which the lord's bailiff col lects the same. It contains the lands and tenements let to each tenant, the names of the tenants, and other particulars. Cun ningham; Holthouse. RENTAL BOLLS. In Scotch law. "When the tithes (tiends) have been liquidated 1 and settled for so many bolls of corn yearly. Bell. RENTAL-RIGHTS. In English law. A species of lease usually granted at a low rent and for life. Tenants under such leases were called "rentalers" or "kindly tenants." BENTE. In French law. Rente is the annual return which represents the revenue of a capital or of an immovable alienated. The constitution of rente is a contract by which one of the parties lends to the other a capital which he agrees not to recall, in con sideration of the borrower's paying an an nual interest. It is this interest which ia called "rente." Duverger. The word is therefore nearly synonymous with the En glish "annuity." "Rentes," is the term applied to the French government funds, and "rentier" to a fundholder or other person having an in come from personal property. Wharton. BENTE FONCIEBE. In French law. A rent which issues out of land, and it is of its essence that it be perpetual, for, if it be made but for a limited time, it is a lease. It may, however, be extinguished. Civil Code La. art. 2780. BENTE VIAGEBE. In French law That species of rente, the duration of which depends upon the contingency of the death of one or more persons indicated in the con tract. The uncertainty of the time at which such death may happen causes the rente via* gere to be included in the number of aleatory contracts. Duverger. It is an annuity for life. Civil Code La. art. 2764. BENTS, ISSUES, AND PBOFIT& more commonly signify in the books a chat tel real interest in land; a kind of estate^ growing out of the land, for life or years,, producing an annual or other rent. 26 Vt 746.

annually. A phrase applied to profits which are taken and the product renewed again. Amb. 131. BENT. At common law. A certain profit issuing yearly out of lands and tene ments corporeal; a species of incorporeal hereditament. 2 Bl. Conim. 41. A com pensation or return yielded periodically, to a certain amount, out of the profits of some corporeal hereditaments, by the tenant there of. 2 Steph. Comm. 23. A certain yearly profit in money, provisions, chattels, or la bor, issuing out of lands and tenements, in retribution lor the use. 3 Kent, Comm. 460. The compensation, either in money, pro visions, chattels, or labor, received by the owner of the soil from the occupant thereof. Jack. & G. Landl. & Ten. § 38. A fee-farm rent is one issuing out of an estate in fee, of at least one-fourth of the value of the lands, at the time of its reserva tion. See, also, GROUND-RENT; RACK-RENT. In Louisiana. The contract of rent of lands is a contract by which one of the par ties conveys and cedes to the other a tract of land, or any other immovable property, and stipulates that the latter shall hold it as owner, but reserving to the former an annual rent of a certain sum of money, or of a cer tain quantity of fruits, which the other party binds himself to pay him. It is of the es sence of this conveyance that it be made in perpetuity. If it be made for a limited time, it is a lease. Civil Code La. arts. 2779, 2780. RENT-CHARGE. This arises where the owner of the rent has no future interest or reversion in the land. It is usually cre ated by deed or will, and is accompanied with powers of distress and entry. Rent must be reserved to him from whom the state of the land moveth. Co. Litt. 143. RENT-ROLL. A list of rents payable to a particular person or public body. RENT SECK. Barren rent; a rent re served by deed, but without any clause of distress. 2 Bl. Comm. 42; 3 Kent, Comm. 461. RENT-SERVICE. This consisted of fealty, together with a certain rent, and was the only kind of rent originally known to the common law. It was so called because it was given as a compensation for the services

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