A kind of customary rent or payment (analogous to the ‘chief-rents’ or ‘quit-rents’ of English Real Property Law), issuing out of certain lands in…

a rent paid at Martinmas.

‘a reserved rent charged upon a piece of land by the chief lord of the fee, or a subsequent mesne owner’ (Wright Provinc. Dict. 1857); also…

The rent paid for an estate so held.

a rent paid under a tenure in chief; now = quit-rent.

Short for chief-rent n. at compounds.

rent payable to the Crown by a guild.

South African. An annual rental (and subsequently a tax) calculated upon the estimated value of land occupied, and paid by a tenant farmer to…

the rent reserved on a lease; the rent paid by a tacksman or farmer of the customs.

‘a year's rent of a farm payable six months after entry’ (Jamieson).

Rent paid by a subtenant. Cf. sub-rent, v.

British. A reduced rent or one-off fee paid by a student to retain his or her accommodation while not in residence (esp. over the summer vacation).