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rent-charge Law.
Also rent charge.
[f. rent n.1 + charge n. 11.]
1. a. A rent forming a charge upon lands, etc., granted or reserved by deed to one who is not the owner, with a clause of distress in case of arrears.
1443Test. Ebor. (Surtees) II. 89 My will ys yat George my son hafe,..a rentcharge of xxvjs viijd issuand owte of my landes and tenementes in Stitnam. 1523Fitzherb. Surv. 21 b, Rent charge is where a man is seased of landes in fee and graunt by poole dede or by dede indented. 1544tr. Littleton's Tenures (1574) 45 Suche rent is rent charge, because such landes and tenementes bee charged of such distres by force of the writinge onelye and not of common right. 1667Primatt City & C. Build. 17 [To] reduce the same to a certain Rent, as if it were an Annuity or Rent⁓charge. 1712Steele Spect. No. 263 ⁋6 Your Father was a fond Fool to give me a Rent-charge of Eight hundred a Year to the Prejudice of his Son. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) III. 282 A rent charge may now be created either by grant, or by the operation of the statute of uses. 1876Digby Real Prop. iv. §5. 204 note, Where on a grant in fee simple a rent is reserved to the grantor, this is not a rent service but a rent charge.
b. transf. and fig.
1668R. Steele Husbandman's Calling v. (1672) 96 The Lord only hath given you an estate: charitable relief of such as are in want, is the Lord's rent-charge which he hath laid upon it. 1726Pope Odyss. xix. 92 A rent-charge on the rich I live; Reduc'd to crave the good I once could give. 1768Woman of Honor II. 175 They become necessarily a rent-charge on the providence of a parish.
2. attrib., as rent-charge bank, rent-charge stock.
1909Daily Chron. 14 Sept. 5/6 *Rent-charge banks were formed to aid the peasants in redeeming these charges.
1869Bradshaw's Railway Man. XXI. 290 The debenture holders having refused to accept the 4½ per cent. *rent-charge stock at par. 1909Gt. Central Railway Co. Rep. 6 Aug. 13 The South Yorkshire Rent-Charge Stocks.
Hence rent-charger, one in receipt of, or who benefits by, a rent-charge.
1870Echo 16 Feb., Fixity of tenure which would make the landlord a pensioner or a rent-charger on his own estate. 1893Duke of Argyll Unseen Found. Soc. xiii. 416 Mere rent-chargers can never have the same motives. |