Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Payment for the use of land.
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Examples
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Bing Questions about the land-rent issue and future rates had put a damper on sales in Battery Park City.
Battery Park City in Land Deal Joseph De Avila 2011
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The land-rent fees get rolled into the monthly condo fees that owners pay.
Battery Park City in Land Deal Joseph De Avila 2011
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Rob Bennett for The Wall Street Journal 300 Rector Pl., one of 11 condo buildings affected by the land-rent agreement with the Battery Park City Authority.
Battery Park City in Land Deal Joseph De Avila 2011
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Barend served then as veldkorporal; many of their Olifants River neighbors, as well as farmers near the Twenty-four Rivers and in the Land van Waveren asked for relief from land-rent payments in 1739 because the hostilities made their frontier farms uninhabitable.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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I am as free as the wind at Martinmas, that pays neither land-rent nor annual; all is explained — all settled with the honest old drivellers yonder of Auld Reekie.
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A fidecomiso is nothing more than a land-rent contract (a trust).
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I should do away with these privileges, making them pay house-rent and land-rent, making them pay for their wood, if of certain qualities, and for the use of teams and implements -- for their own work.
Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) Elizabeth Ware [Editor] Pearson
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The land-tax or land-rent which used to be paid to the Mahometan government of Bengal, before that country fell into the hands of the English East India company, is said to have amounted to about a fifth part of the produce.
II. Book V. Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the Society 1909
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The land-tax, we may say the land-rent, is the main source of revenue, but it is alarming to think of dependence on the opium monopoly for the millions it contributes.
Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 James Kennedy 1857
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Under a system of limited settlements of the land - revenue, such as prevail over all our dominions, except in Bengal, the Government is in reality the landlord; and our land-revenue is in reality land-rent.
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822
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