A philologicall commentary, or, An illustration of the most obvious and useful words in the lavv with their distinctions and divers acceptations, as they are found as well in reports antient and modern as in records and memorials never printed : usefull for all young students of the law / by Edward Leigh ...

RENTS.

Rents, Rent paid yearly for Land, or other* 1.1 things, is call'd in Latin Reditus a reddendo, be∣cause it is yearly yeelded or restored for the Lands, rather à redeundo quia retr•• it: because it doth return to the Lessor or Donor, for the issues and profits of the Land, and in English it is called a Rent, the French word rentor, to rate or assess a price. Tenure by Rents is called vivi re∣ditus,* 1.2 because the Lords and the owners thereof do live by them.

A feme sole Lessee for life rendring Rent, takes a Husband, the Rent arere, the Wife dieth though here be no recovery in the Wives life time, yet be∣cause* 1.3 the Baron took the profit, he is still charge∣able in a Writ of debt for the Rent, for qui sentit commodum sentire debet & onus.

For Rent payable at a day, the party hath all the day till night to pay it, but i•• it be a great summe* 1.4 as five hundred, or a 1000 ll. He must be ready as long before the Sun-set, as the money may be told: for the other is not bound to tell it in the night.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Cooks Rep. l. 10. & on Lit. l. 2. c. 12. Doderidge.
• * 1.2

  Cook on Lit.
• * 1.3

  Wom. Law.
• * 1.4

  Cooks 5th Rep. Wades case.