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Webster 1913 Edition

(kwĭt′rĕntˊ)

Noun.

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Quit

, a. +

rent

(Law)

A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit from other service.

Blackstone.

☞ In some of the United States a fee-farm rent is so termed.

Burrill.

See also: quit-rent and quit rent

quitrent ‎(plural quitrents)

A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit (absolved) from other service.

a rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit (absolved) from other service