When a tenant holds back paying full rent due to not receiving all the benefits of a lease, typically due to the landlord's unjustifiable failure to remedy a significant problem for which the landlord is responsible to deliver under the lease. For example, a tenant withholds 5% of the rent after the landlord waits one full week to fix an issue where the tenant did not have hot … [Read more...] about RENT WITHHOLDING
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REMUNERATION
Reward; recompense; salary. Dig. 17, 1, 7. The word "remuneration" means a quid pro quo. If a man gives his services, whatever consideration he gets for giving his services seems to me a remuneration for them. Consequently, I think, if a person was in the receipt of a payment, or in the receipt of a percentage, or any kind of payment which would not be an actual money payment, … [Read more...] about REMUNERATION
RENTAGE
Rent. … [Read more...] about RENTAGE
RENANT, OR RENIANT
In old English law. Denying. 32 Hen. VIII. c. 2. … [Read more...] about RENANT, OR RENIANT
RENTAL
(Said to be corrupted from "rent-roll.") In English law. A roll on which the rents of a manor are registered or set down, and by which the lord's bailiff collects the same. It contains the lands and tenements let to each tenant, the names of the tenants, and other particulars. Cunningham; Holthonse. Rental bolls. In Scotch law. When the tithes (tiends) have been liquidated and … [Read more...] about RENTAL