rent servicen.
/ˈrɛntˌsəːvɪs/, U.S. /ˈrɛntˌsərvəs/ Now chiefly historical and in ceremonial contexts, notably in the United Kingdom at the coronation of the Monarch.
Personal service of various kinds by which lands or buildings are held in addition to, or in lieu of, money payment; tenure of this kind.
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1343 in J. C. Atkinson Cartularium Abbathiæ de Whiteby (1879) I. 230 (MED) The auncestres of the same Robert..made an rent seruice of twenti shillyns to ye aforsayd Abbote and Couent fro ȝer to ȝere.
1445 Plea & Mem. Rolls London Guildhall No. A 71. m. 8 (MED) With to mark of yereli rent seruice of þe priour of Newerk.
1478 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1478 §13. m. 14 Discharged of all grauntes..other than the rent services.
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xi. f. 21 Rent seruyce, is where a man holdeth his landes of his lorde by fealtie..or by any other seruice and certayne rent.
1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xviii The..rent seruyce [printed reut seruyce]..shal be apporcyoned after the value of the lande.
1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue 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.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 148 a Such Rent services are apportionable by Common law.
1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent i. 3 Censual or Rent-Service Land.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. 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.
1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 394/1 A rent-service reserved out of chattels real will of course belong to the personal representatives of the lessor.
1894 Daily 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.
1962 Yale Law Jrnl. 71 1377 If in England today a grantor attempts to grant a life estate subject to rent service, statute..turns it into a lease for 90 years.
1995 S. Bright & G. Gilbert Landlord & Tenant Law 417 Rent is properly called ‘rent service’, terminology which illustrates the fact that landlord and tenant law has feudal origins. Thus, the payment of rent was the form of service which the tenant owed to his feudal lord. Payment for use of the land could take a variety of forms, not only monetary.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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