arrentation

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ARRENTA'TION, noun [See Rent.] In the forest laws of England, a licensing the owner of land in a forest, to inclose it with a small ditch and low hedge, in consideration of a yearly rent.
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