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.
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.
Rent, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rented; p. pr. & vb. n. Renting.] [F. renter.
See Rent, n.] 1. To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent;
to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.
2. To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant
rents an estate of the owner.
Rent, v. i. To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five
hundred dollars a year.
Rent"a*ble (-?-b'l), a. Capable of being rented, or suitable for
renting.