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payment for distinct rights that were connected with the full enjoyment of the land but not parcelled up in the ownership of the land. Formally, it was a sort of buy-back rather than a tax. A tax can be varied by the taxer; and if not paid there are penalties that can be varied by the taxer without formal limit. In contrast, the only sanction for not paying a feudal quit rent was that the alternative burdens would return. This imposed a ceiling on how much could be demanded in payment of a quit rent. Where the sanctions for non-compliance are limited in this way, a quit rent is a rent in form and name, and not a tax; where they are not so limited, a quit rent is a rent only in form and name, being rather a tax. The latter is the usual case today, as the former was in earlier times.
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of a holding from the obligation to perform such other services as were obligatory under feudal tenure, or freed the occupier of the land from the burden of having others use their own distinct rights that affected the land (e.g. hunting rights which would have hindered farming). Thus, it was a
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Some governments have now abolished the quit rent system and relieved those with a nominal quit rent obligation from the requirement to pay it, replacing quit rents with a uniform system of
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In post-feudal times, quit rents have continued to be imposed by some governments, usually attached to land grants as a form of land tax.
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in the 17th and 18th centuries carried quit rent. Quit rents went on to be used in British
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Mozley, Herbert Newman; Whiteley, George Crispe; Neave, Frederick George (1908).
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Federal-state relations in Sabah, Malaysia: the Berjaya administration 1976–85
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land in lieu of services to a higher landowning authority, usually a
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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