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† ˈtop-ˈannual Sc. Law. Obs.
[f. top n.1 + annual.]
An annual sum payable out of the rent of a building or buildings as distinct from the land: cf. ground-annual. So † top-ˈannualler.
(The distinction appears to have disappeared soon after the date of the Act cited; and after 1693 there was no legal way of making such a distinction.)
1555Sc. Acts Mary (1814) II. 490/2 [Mentions] few annuellaris [and] tope annuellaris. 1597Skene De Verb. Sign. s.v. Annuel, Top-annuel, is ane certaine duty, given and disponed furth of ony bigged tenement or land, of the quhilk tenement the propertie remainis with the disponer, and he is onely oblished to pay the said annuel. 1681Stair Instit. xv. §7. 320 The case being there of Tenements within Burgh, the Feu Annual is [etc.]; Ground-annuals is a distinct several annualrent, Constitute upon the Ground, before the House was built; and the Top-annualrent is out of the House. |