| The quit-rent belonged to the king based upon the alleged royal ownership claim upon all land. |
| A hundred acres were promised for forty shillings, with a quit-rent of one shilling annually to the proprietor forever. |
| If any one buy the field, garden, and house of a chieftain, man, or one subject to quit-rent, his contract tablet of sale shall be broken and he loses his money. |
| He held it on freehold title, with no reservation of quit-rent to the Government. |
| The quit-rent was handed down from the feudal system of medieval times. |
| The quit-rent revenue amounted to about eight hundred pounds sterling per annum. |
