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 Ch. 3. called reditus nigri, or black-maile. Rack-rent is only a rent of the full value of the tenement, or near it. A feefarm-rent is a rent-charge iuing out of an etate in fee; of at leat one fourth of the value of the lands, at the time of it's reervation : for a grant of lands, reerving o coniderable a rent, is indeed only letting lands to farm in fee imple intead of the uual methods for life or years.

are the general diviions of rent; but the difference between them (in repect to the remedy for recovering them) is now totally abolihed; and all perons may have the like remedy by ditres for rents-eck, rents of aie, and chief-rents, as in cae of rents reerved upon leae.

is regularly due and payable upon the land from whence it iues, if no particular place is mentioned in the reervation : but, in cae of the king, the payment mut be either to his officers at the exchequer, or to his receiver in the country. And, trictly, the rent is demandable and payable before the time of unet of the day whereon it is reerved ; though ome have thought it not abolutely due till midnight. regard to the original of rents, omething will be aid in the next chapter: and, as to ditrees and other remedies for their recovery, the doctrine relating thereto, and the everal proceedings thereon, thee belong properly to the third part of our commentaries, which will treat of civil injuries, and the means whereby they are redreed. Rh