"Sleeping Rent" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL

Sleeping Rent LAW AND LEGAL
Definition:

In English iaw. An expression frequently used ln coal-mine leases and agreements for the same. It signifies a fixed or dead, i. e., certain, rent, as distin-guished from a rent or royalty varying with the amount of coals gotten, and is payable although the mine should not be worked at all, but should be sleeping or dead, whence the name. Brown

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seguestration ENGLISH

A kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a …

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Superstitious Use LAW AND LEGAL

In Engllsh law. when lands, tenements, rents, goods, or chattels are given, secured, or appointed for and towards the maintenance …

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when the rent re-served by a mining lease or the like consists of a royalty on every ton of minerals …

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