释义 |
rent-service [rent n.1] Personal service of various kinds by which lands or tenements are held in addition to, or in lieu of, money payment; tenure of this kind.
1477Rolls of Parlt. VI. 170/1 Discharged of all graunts made of any Offices, Fees or Rents, other than the Rent services. 1523Fitzherb. Surv. 21 Rent seruyce is where a man holdeth his landes of his lorde by fealtie..or by any other seruice and certayne rent. 1566[see prec.]. 1607Norden Surv. Dial. ii. 49 Rent seruice, is so called, because it is knit to the tenure, and is as it were a Seruice, whereby a man holdeth his Landes, or Tenements. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. 41 Rent-service is so called because it hath some corporal service incident to it, as at the least fealty, or the feodal oath of fidelity. 1841Penny Cycl. XIX. 394/1 A rent-service reserved out of chattels real will of course belong to the personal representatives of the lessor. 1894Daily News 23 Oct. 7/1 Yesterday..the last Sheriffs of the City of London were summoned before the Queen's Remembrancer..to render rent-services to the Crown on behalf of the Corporation of London. |