Brewer's: Fee-farm-rent

is where an estate is granted, subject to a rent in fee of at least one-fourth its value. It is rent paid on lands let to farm, and not let in recompense of service at a greatly reduced value.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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