dry rent

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dry rent (plural dry rents)

  1. (UK, law) A rent reserved by deed, without a clause of distress.
    • 1722, Gilles Jacob, A New Law Dictionary:
      Rent-Seek, or dry Rent, is where a Man passeth his Estate to another, and reserves to him and his Heirs a certain Rent