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PRONUNCIATION OF QUITRENT

quitrent  [ˈkwɪtˌrɛnt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF QUITRENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Quitrent is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES QUITRENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Quit-rent

Quit rent, Quit-rent, or quitrent, in practically all cases, is now effectively but not formally a tax or land tax imposed on freehold or leased land by a higher landowning authority, usually a government or its assigns. Under feudal law, the payment of quit rent freed the tenant of a holding from the obligation to perform such other services as were obligatory under feudal tenure, or freed the occupier of the land from the burden of having others use their own distinct rights that affected the land. As such, it was a rental of distinct things that were not parcelled up in the ownership of the land itself, although connected with the full enjoyment of the land, and formally it was a sort of buy back rather than a tax. Where a true tax can be varied by the taxer, and must be paid on pain of penalties that can be varied by the taxer without formal limit, the only sanction for not paying a feudal quit rent was that the alternative burdens would return — which imposed a ceiling on how much could be demanded in payment of a quit rent in practice.

Definition of quitrent in the English dictionary

The definition of quitrent in the dictionary is a rent payable by a freeholder or copyholder to his lord that released him from liability to perform services.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH QUITRENT


bent
bɛnt
besprent
bɪˈsprɛnt
bloodsprent
ˈblʌdˌsprɛnt
Brent
brɛnt
cent
sɛnt
comment
ˈkɒmɛnt
content
ˈkɒntɛnt
cornrent
ˈkɔːnˌrɛnt
event
ɪˈvɛnt
meant
mɛnt
Newark-on-Trent
ˈnjuːəkɒnˈtrɛnt
prevent
prɪˈvɛnt
rent
rɛnt
represent
ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnt
sent
sɛnt
spent
spɛnt
sprent
sprɛnt
subrent
sʌbˈrɛnt
Trent
trɛnt
went
wɛnt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE QUITRENT

quit
quitch
quitch grass
quitclaim
quite
quite a
quite a little
quite so
quite something
Quito
quits
quittal
quittance
quitted
quitter
quittor
quiver
quiverer
quiverful
quivering

WORDS THAT END LIKE QUITRENT

adherent
apparent
BitTorrent
coherent
concurrent
current
deterrent
different
for rent
grandparent
indifferent
inherent
parent
recurrent
referent
Saint Laurent
Saint-Laurent
Stoke-on-Trent
torrent
transparent

Synonyms and antonyms of quitrent in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «quitrent» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF QUITRENT

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Translator English - Chinese

quitrent
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

quitrent
570 millions of speakers

English

quitrent
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

quitrent
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

quitrent
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

оброк
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

quitrent
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মুক্তিরাজস্ব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

quitrent
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Quitrent
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

quitrent
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

quitrent
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

quitrent
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Quitrent
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

quitrent
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

quitrent
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पश्चात्ताप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

derebeylik döneminde mülkün itibari kirası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

quitrent
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

quitrent
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

оброк
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

quitrent
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

quitrent
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

erfpag
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

quitrent
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

quitrent
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of quitrent

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «QUITRENT»

The term «quitrent» is used very little and occupies the 180.091 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «QUITRENT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about quitrent

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «QUITRENT»

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1
Introduction to the Law of South Africa
C. Perpetual Quitrent The State or other public authorities originally granted citizens unimproved land in perpetual quitrent (a mixture of the Roman emphyteusis, the Roman-Dutch erfpagrecht and English quitrent) almost indefinitely to ...
C. G. Van der Merwe, J. E. Du Plessis, 2004
2
A.V. Chayanov on the Theory of Peasant Economy
In the quitrent system, however, the family is forced by noneconomic factors to reach this equilibrium in such a way that the product obtained not only meets its own demands but also the quitrent to be paid to the owner. Therefore, the demand ...
Aleksandr Vasilʹevich Chai︠a︡nov, Daniel Thorner, Basile H. Kerblay, 1986
3
Pennsylvania Land Records: A History and Guide for Research
3 The quitrent system, initiated by Penn to provide his family with a steady income, placed a nominal ground rent upon all land whether purchased or rented . Although the quitrent was figured from the time of the return of survey, the money was ...
Donna B. Munger, 1993
4
Las Siete Partidas, Volume 4: Family, Commerce, and the Sea: ...
Where Property Is Rented by Men for Quitrent, Who Should Be Responsible for the Damage to Said Property If It Is Lost, and How Said Quitrent Should Be Paid. Contractus emphyteut-icus, in Latin, means, in Castilian, a contract or agreement  ...
Robert I. Burns, S.J., 2012
5
The Etablissements de Saint Louis: Thirteenth-century Law ...
And it is the same for a relief for quitrent property [relevoisons]. But there is no quitrent relief [relevoisons] 130 for custodianship, nor should anyone pay it for quitrent property, nor for dower property nor for property in coholdership. And no one ...
F. R. P. Akehurst, 1996
6
Colonial South Africa:Origins Racial Order
One important innovation was the introduction in 1 813 of freehold land tenure under a perpetual quitrent system in place of the old loan- farm system. No new loan farms were to be recognised, and henceforth loan farms were gradually to be ...
Tim Keegan, 1997
7
The Story of Winchester in Virginia: The Oldest Town in the ...
The former preferred to bend, rather than run the possibility of being broken, and he chose to pay the quitrent demanded by Fairfax. It is clear that the men who purchased from him accepted the encumbrance under protest. Several put on ...
Frederic Morton, 2009
8
Patents and Deeds and Other Early Records of New Jersey, ...
Quitrent one fat hen or capon. 447 1695 April 21. Mortgage. Jonathan Osborne to Jeremiah Basse for the Society, on the preceding no a. 448 1695 April 19. Deed. The W. J. Society, by Jeremiah Basse, to Nathll Short of Cape May, whaler, ...
William Nelson, 1899
9
Taxation in Colonial America
oyal officials made numerous attempts to improve the efficiency of the quitrent system. Its deficiencies stemmed from several problems. First was the quitrent act of 1731, which allowed large amounts of land to escape quitrent ...
Alvin Rabushka, 2010
10
The American Past: A Survey of American History, Enhanced ...
They were then obligated to pay the proprietor (or king) an annual quitrent. This was not rent as we understand it. The settlers owned the land; they were not tenants. Nor was a quitrent quite a tax. The quitrent principle dated from the era when ...
Joseph Conlin, 2008

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «QUITRENT»

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Welcome to my World: Red rose ceremonies
In addition to the amount paid for the use of the land, the tenant paid a token called “quitrent,” which meant the tenant was quit and free of some objectionable ... «Boyertown Berk Montgomery Newspapers, Jun 15»

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