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租费
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Rent \Rent\, n. [F. rente, LL. renta, fr. L. reddita, fem. sing.
or neut. pl. of redditus, p. p. of reddere to give back, pay.
See {Render}.]
1. Income; revenue. See {Catel}. [Obs.] ``Catel had they
enough and rent.'' --Chaucer.
[Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent In wine and
bordel he dispent. --Gower.
So bought an annual rent or two, And liv'd, just as
you see I do. --Pope.
2. Pay; reward; share; toll. [Obs.]
Death, that taketh of high and low his rent.
--Chaucer.
3. (Law) A certain periodical profit, whether in money,
provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and
tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain
pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his
landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the
lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent
for a farm, a house, a park, etc.
Note: The term rent is also popularly applied to compensation
for the use of certain personal chattels, as a piano, a
sewing machine, etc.
{Black rent}. See {Blackmail}, 3.
{Forehand rent}, rent which is paid in advance; foregift.
{Rent arrear}, rent in arrears; unpaid rent. --Blackstone.
{Rent charge} (Law), a rent reserved on a conveyance of land
in fee simple, or granted out of lands by deed; -- so
called because, by a covenant or clause in the deed of
conveyance, the land is charged with a distress for the
payment of it. --Bouvier.
{Rent roll}, a list or account of rents or income; a rental.
{Rent seck} (Law), a rent reserved by deed, but without any
clause of distress; barren rent. A power of distress was
made incident to rent seck by Statute 4 George II. c. 28.
{Rent service} (Eng. Law), rent reserved out of land held by
fealty or other corporeal service; -- so called from such
service being incident to it.
{White rent}, a quitrent when paid in silver; -- opposed to
black rent.