At eommon law. A certain profit issuing yearly out of lands and tene-ments corporeal; a species of incorporeal hereditament. 2 Bl. Comm. 41. A compensation or return yielded periodically, to a certain amount, out of the profits of some corporeal hereditaments, by the tenant there-of. 2 Steph. Comm. 23. A certain yearly profit in money, provlslons, chattels, or la-bor, issuing out of lands and tenements, in retribution for the use. 3 Kent, Comm. 460
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
