ARRENT
\ɐɹˈɛnt], \ɐɹˈɛnt], \ɐ_ɹ_ˈɛ_n_t]\
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In old English law. To let or demise at a fixed rent. Particularly used with reference to the public domain or crown lands; as where a license was granted to inclose land in a forest with a low hedge and a ditch, under a yearly rent, or where an encroachment, originally a purpresture, was allowed to remain on the fixing and payment of a suitable compensation to the public for its maintenance.
By Henry Campbell Black
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