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rent +‎ charge

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rentcharge (countable and uncountable, plural rentcharges)

  1. (property law) An annual sum or periodic payment charged on certain freehold properties or payable out of the income of those properties and expressly giving to the rentcharger, who has no reversionary interest in the property, the right of distress for arrears.

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