dry rent
(UK, legal) A rent reserved by deed, without a clause of distress.
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(UK, legal) A rent reserved by deed, without a clause of distress.
Rent-Seek, or dry Rent, is where a Man passeth his Estate to another, and reserves to him and his Heirs a certain Rent
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