In French law. Rente is the annual return which represents the revenue of a capital or of an immovable allenated. The coustitution of rente, is a contract by which one of the parties lends to the other a capital which he agrees not to recall, in con-slderatlon of the borrower’s paying an an-nual interest. It is this Interest which is called “rente." Duverger. The word is therefore nearly synonymous with tbe Eng-lish “annuity.”
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
