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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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ANNUALRENT, ANNUAL RENT, n. Interest of money. (See quot. Bell's Dict.)Sc. 1702 Records of a Sc. Cloth Manuf. [Hdg.] (S.H.S. 1905) 333:
To Provost Cuninghame as a years annual rent of £600 to Martinmas last 1702 . . . £33.0.0.Sc. 1818 Scott H. Midlothian viii.:
Ye'll no forget to draw the annual rent that's due on the yerl's band.Sc. 1890 Bell's Dict. Law Scot. 46:
Before the Reformation it was not lawful to lend money at interest, and, to evade this law, persons lending money received a yearly rent out of land. The profit of the money so lent was denominated annualrent, and thus the term annualrent came to be synonymous with interest.Sc. 1902 The Sc. Style Book I. 298:
Being an annualrent at the rate of £7, 2s. for every £100 of the foresaid sum of £10,118, 2s.