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单词 rentcharge
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rentchargen.

Brit. /ˈrɛntˌtʃɑːdʒ/, U.S. /ˈrɛn(t)ˌtʃɑrdʒ/
Forms: see rent n.1 and charge n.; also late Middle English rentzcharges (plural).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: rent n.1, charge n.
Etymology: < rent n.1 + charge n. (compare charge n. 11), probably after Anglo-Norman rente charge (a1321 or earlier).
Law.
1. A periodical payment which the owner of land is obliged to make to a third party and which may be enforced by taking possession of the land and collecting income arising from it.The U.K. Rentcharges Act 1977 prohibits the creation, in England and Wales, of new rentcharges. A rentcharge is to be distinguished from the rent due to a landlord under a lease, which is technically classified as rent service.
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society > trade and finance > charges > [noun] > liability to pay > specific pecuniary liabilities
pensiona1387
rentcharge1394
reprise1427
quit-rent1454
rent seck1472
reprisal1622
1394 in Collectanea Topographica & Genealogica (1836) III. 256 (MED) We sholde graunt a rente charge of xl pound on the forsaid Manere of Slapton paiable to the vse and profit of his chanterie ther.
1443 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 89 (MED) My will ys yat George my son hafe..a rent charge of xxvj s. viij d. issuand owte of my landes and tenementes in Stitnam.
c1474 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 174 Be feffes therof..wyth-owte ony reles..or ony graunte of rent charge.
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xi. f. 21v Rent charge, is where a man is seased of landes in fee and graunt by poole dede or by dede indented.
1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xviiv Suche rente is rente charge, because suche landys & tenementes be charged of suche dystresse by force of the wrytynge onely, & not of comon ryght.
1606 R. Bowyer Diary 8 Mar. in Parl. Diary (1931) 71 The third danger of composicion is, for that it wilbe like a rent charge, for which distresse may be taken for the King on all the parties lands.
?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 17 [To] reduce the same to a certain Rent, as if it were an Annuity or Rent~charge.
1712 R. Steele Spectator 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.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) III. 282 A rent charge may now be created either by grant, or by the operation of the statute of uses.
1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. iv. 166 Where on a grant in fee simple a rent is reserved to the grantor, this is not a rent service but a rent charge.
1926 R. H. Tawney Relig. & Rise Capitalism i. 42 It is no usury..when Geoffrey de Eston grants William de Burwode three marks of silver in return for an annual rent of six shillings, for this is the purchase of a rent-charge, not a loan.
1978 Daily Tel. 2 Feb. 6/8 Regulations which came into effect yesterday provide for householders who pay rentcharges to free themselves from such payments, which range from 50p to £25 a year.
2000 Church Times 7 Apr. 8/1 Who would be a lay rector? Once upon a time most such people enjoyed a share in the ‘great tithe’, but tithes were replaced by rent-charges in 1836, and finally abolished in 1936.
2. In extended and figurative uses. Obsolete.
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a1594 R. Greenham Παραμύθιον (1598) 78 How hainous vnthankfulnes it were to binde the Lord continually to intertaine vs in this life at so full Charge and cost..or to make a rent charge of all that which he giueth of his free liberalitie.
1668 R. Steele Husbandmans Calling (1672) v. 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.
1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 92 A rent-charge on the rich I live; Reduc'd to crave the good I once could give.
1768 Woman of Honor II. 175 They become necessarily a rent-charge on the providence of a parish.

Compounds

rentcharge bank n.
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1909 Daily Chron. 14 Sept. 5/6 Rent-charge banks were formed to aid the peasants in redeeming these charges.
rentcharge stock n.
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1866 Times 15 June 10/6 The Chairmen said the Bill authorized the conversion of Wycombe shares into five per cent Great Western rent-charge stock.
1869 Bradshaw's Railway Man. 21 290 The debenture holders having refused to accept the 4½ per cent. rent-charge stock at par.
1909 Great Central Railway Co. Rep. 6 Aug. 13 The South Yorkshire Rent-Charge Stocks.

Derivatives

ˈrent charger n. a person who receives or benefits from a rentcharge.
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1755 Rep. Comm. Privileges & Elections touching Election for Wexford 38 He believed Vavasor took the Oath as a Rent-Charger.
1797 H. Grattan Let. in Misc. Wks. (1820) 306 You will not confirm an unjust distribution of your property, by becoming a poor rent-charger on a poor portion of your inheritance.
1870 Echo 16 Feb. Fixity of tenure which would make the landlord a pensioner or a rent-charger on his own estate.
1893 Duke of Argyll Unseen Found. Society xiii. 416 Mere rent-chargers can never have the same motives.
1907 Daily Chron. 20 Mar. 7/7 Mr. Shaw dismissed lightly the talk about reducing the landowner to the position of rent-charger. No landlord under this Bill would suffer any diminution of his patrimony.
1984 Compar. Stud. Society & Hist. 26 357 Paul Bew's portrayal of the Irish landlord as ‘a mere rent charger’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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