The decree or proclamation of the Roman Emperors fixing the valuation on which the property-tax was assessed at the beginning of each period of…

An annual sum payable out of the rent of a building or buildings as distinct from the land: cf. ground-annual, n.

An obligatory tax payable annually under Islamic law on certain kinds of property in order to raise money for charitable and religious objects.

A sum additional to interest, price, wages, or other fixed remuneration; any amount paid above the usual or nominal price; a sum added to an…

attributive in sense 1b, esp. with reference to the assessment of the effect on the value of property of improvements other than those made by its…