quit-rent

If a lord or a prelate had cited before a regular tribunal a girl affianced to one of his vassals, in claim of her quit-rent, he would doubtless have lost his cause and costs.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Appin, accordingly, settled as tenants there, at an easy quit-rent, the MacLarens, a family dependent on the Stewarts, and from whose character for strength and bravery, it was expected that they would make their right good if annoyed by the

Rob Roy 2005

These allotments will be free of all fines, taxes, quit-rents, and other acknowledgments, for the space of ten years; but after the expiration of that period, will be subject to an annual quit-rent of one shilling for every fifty acres.

The Settlement at Port Jackson 2003

This man was one of the seamen of the ‘Sirius’, and has taken, in conjunction with his brother (also a seaman of the same ship) a grant of sixty acres, on the same terms as Ruse, save that the annual quit-rent is to commence at the expiration of five years, instead of ten.

The Settlement at Port Jackson 2003

The terms on which these allotments have been granted are: that the estates shall be fully ceded for ever to all who shall continue to cultivate for five years, or more; that they shall be free of all taxes for the first ten years; but after that period to pay an annual quit-rent of one shilling.

The Settlement at Port Jackson 2003

They drove 20,000 Africans back over the Fish river and built a double line of block-houses, garrisoned with troops and civilians, behind which quit-rent farms of 4,000 acres each were offered to the settlers on what had been African soil.

Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Ch.1 Ray Esther 1969

The imposition of taxes - poll tax, quit-rent or hut tax - and the dwindling fertility of the soil caused a regular drift of able-bodied men from the reserves to seek work in the industrial areas, where they could earn cash wages to pay for the ever-increasing demands of a changing society.

South Africa: The Peasants Revolt 1964

The principal difficulty had been that while everybody in the country knew the general tax, the local tax, and quit-rent, the Transkei had other rates to consider.

South Africa: The Peasants Revolt 1964

The first of these was the requirement for the annual quitrent of one shilling for fifty acres; but according to Randolph, the colonists "never pay a penny of quit-rent to the King for it, by which in strictness of law their land is forfeited."

Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699 Walter Stitt Robinson

Council have large tracts of land in most of the counties, for which they are in great arrears of quit-rent.

Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699 Walter Stitt Robinson