In English law. Rents paid in silver, and called “white rents,” or “redditus albi,” to distinguish them from rents payable in corn, labor, provisions, etc., called “black-rent” or “black-mail”
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In English law. Rents paid in silver, and called “white rents,” or “redditus albi,” to distinguish them from rents payable in corn, labor, provisions, etc., called “black-rent” or “black-mail”