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quit-rent

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See also: quitrent and quit rent

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Noun

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quit-rent (plural quit-rents)

  1. Alternative spelling of quitrent.
    • 2015, Marc Bloch, Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe:
      He, too, was a knight, possessing quit-rents, a mill, and some woodland; his brothers held their share of an enfeoffed inheritance from him, according to the system of inheritance which was practised among the nobility; his wife was 'Dame Mary, the steward's lady'.
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