A rent, typically a small one, paid by a freeholder or copyholder in lieu of services which might be required of them.
〈史〉免役租，代役租（尤指由不动产的终身保有者或副本土地保有者交纳、免除劳役的少量租金）
Example sentencesExamples
If any one buy the field, garden, and house of a chieftain, man, or one subject to quit-rent, his contract tablet of sale shall be broken (declared invalid) and he loses his money.
Thus in the early years of European settlement in Australia grants of land were made subject to the payment of a ‘quit-rent,’ which notionally recognised the landholder's obligation to the Crown.
Governor Macquarie sought, for example, to regularise an ad hoc system of land grants by forbidding resale until five years had elapsed, and by instituting a system of quit-rents attaching to land grants.
Definition of quit-rent in US English:
quit-rent
nounˈkwitrent
historical
A rent, typically a small one, paid by a freeholder or copyholder in lieu of services which might be required of them.
〈史〉免役租，代役租（尤指由不动产的终身保有者或副本土地保有者交纳、免除劳役的少量租金）
Example sentencesExamples
If any one buy the field, garden, and house of a chieftain, man, or one subject to quit-rent, his contract tablet of sale shall be broken (declared invalid) and he loses his money.
Governor Macquarie sought, for example, to regularise an ad hoc system of land grants by forbidding resale until five years had elapsed, and by instituting a system of quit-rents attaching to land grants.
Thus in the early years of European settlement in Australia grants of land were made subject to the payment of a ‘quit-rent,’ which notionally recognised the landholder's obligation to the Crown.