Quit″rent′ (kwĭt″rĕnt′), n. [Quit, a. + rent.] (Law) A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit from other service. Blackstone.
☞ In some of the United States a fee-farm rent is so termed. Burrill.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.