英语词汇“quit-rent”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

quit-rent

noun historical

A rent, typically a small one, paid by a freeholder or copyholder in lieu of services which might be required of them.Governor Macquarie sought, for example, to regularise an ad hoc system of land grants by forbidding resale until five years had elapsed, and by instituting a system of quit-rents attaching to land grants....

If any one buy the field, garden, and house of a chieftain, man, or one subject to quit-rent, his contract tablet of sale shall be broken (declared invalid) and he loses his money.
Thus in the early years of European settlement in Australia grants of land were made subject to the payment of a ‘quit-rent,’ which notionally recognised the landholder's obligation to the Crown.

单词	quit-rent
释义	quit-rent noun historical A rent, typically a small one, paid by a freeholder or copyholder in lieu of services which might be required of them.Governor Macquarie sought, for example, to regularise an ad hoc system of land grants by forbidding resale until five years had elapsed, and by instituting a system of quit-rents attaching to land grants.... If any one buy the field, garden, and house of a chieftain, man, or one subject to quit-rent, his contract tablet of sale shall be broken (declared invalid) and he loses his money. Thus in the early years of European settlement in Australia grants of land were made subject to the payment of a ‘quit-rent,’ which notionally recognised the landholder's obligation to the Crown.
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