blanch-holding love

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Scotch tenure by which the tenant is bound to pay only a nominal or trifling yearly duty to his superior, as an acknowledgment of his right, and only if demanded. Also written blench-holding.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • (Scots Law) A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent (silver) or otherwise.

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