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 42 caue it hath ome corporal ervice incident to it, as at the leat fealty, or the feodal oath of fidelity. For, if a tenant holds his land by fealty, and ten hillings rent; or by the ervice of ploughing the lord's land, and five hillings rent; thee pecuniary rents, being connected with peronal ervices, are therefore called rent-ervice. And for thee, in cae they be behind, or arrere, at the day appointed, the lord may ditrein of common right, without reerving any pecial power of ditres; provided he hath in himelf the reverion, or future etate of the lands and tenements, after the leae or particular etate of the leee or grantee is expired. A rent-charge, is where the owner of the rent hath no future interet, or reverion expectant in the land; as where a man by deed maketh over to others his whole etate in fee imple, with a certain rent payable thereout, and adds to the deed a covenant or claue of ditres, that if the rent be arrere, or behind, it hall be lawful to ditrein for the ame. In this cae the land is liable to the ditres, not of common right, but by virtue of the claue in the deed: and therefore it is called a rent-charge, becaue in this manner the land is charged with a ditres for the payment of it. Rent-eck, reditus iccus, or barren rent, is in effect nothing more than a rent reerved by deed, but without any claue of ditres.

are alo other pecies of rents, which are reducible to thee three. Rents of aie are the certain etablihed rents of the freeholders and antient copyholders of a manor, which cannot be departed from or varied. Thoe of the freeholders are frequently called chief rents, reditus capitales, and both orts are indifferently denominated quit rents, quieti reditus; becaue thereby the tenant goes quit and free of all other ervices. When thee payments were reerved in ilver or white money, they were antiently called white-rents, or blanch-farms, reditus albi ; in contraditinction to rents reerved in work, grain, &c. which were Rh