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单词 acre money
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acre money
acre money n. now historical and rare (a) rent paid on a piece of land taken in from moorland or common land; (b) Caribbean rent paid per acre for the right to work, prospect, etc., on a piece of land.
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1713 G. Ritschel Acct. Certain Charities 11 In the year of our Lord 1662, Sir William Fenwick of Wallington, Baronet, did Subscribe three Pounds a Year..out of the Intack Rents, or Acre-Money, for the use of a School-Master.
1807 H. Bolingbroke Voy. Demerary ix. 182 Another step which the governor took to harrass and exert his power over the planters, was to make an immediate demand upon them for ‘acre geldt,’ viz. acre money.
1895 Laws Brit. Guiana (Govt. Brit. Guiana) (rev. ed.) III. 384 The acre money payable annually in respect of all lands aback of any plantation in cultivation beyond the second depth granted to or occupied or enjoyed by the proprietor of such plantation shall be at the rate of three stivers per acre.
1955 Caribbean Q. 4 139 The planter class..petitioned Bathurst against a proclamation issued in September, 1822, calling..for the recovery of this acre-money debt.
1980 Econ. Hist. Rev. 33 62 Such encroachments were so usual that they were sometimes given legal standing by the payment of ‘acre money’ to the lord of the manor.
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