White rent Meaning, Definition & Usage

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1. a quitrent when paid in silver; opposed to black rent.

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1. (a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; opposed to black rent. See Blackmail, n., 3. (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of Cornwall, as lord of the soil. Prov. Eng.