What is "forehand rent"

Rent \Rent\ (r[e^]nt), n. [F. rente, LL. renta, fr. L. reddita, fem. sing. or neut. pl. of redditus, p. p. of reddere to give back, pay. See Render.]

1. Income; revenue. See Catel. [Obs.] ``Catel had they enough and rent.''
   --Chaucer.

   [Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent In wine and bordel he dispent.
   --Gower.

   So bought an annual rent or two, And liv'd, just as you see I do.
   --Pope.

2. Pay; reward; share; toll. [Obs.]

   Death, that taketh of high and low his rent.
   --Chaucer.

3. (Law) A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.

   Note: The term rent is also popularly applied to compensation for the use of certain personal chattels, as a piano, a sewing machine, etc.

4. (Polit. Econ.)

   1. That portion of the produce of the earth paid to the landlord for the use of the ``original and indestructible powers of the soil;'' the excess of the return from a given piece of cultivated land over that from land of equal area at the ``margin of cultivation.'' Called also economic rent, or Ricardian rent. Economic rent is due partly to differences of productivity, but chiefly to advantages of location; it is equivalent to ordinary or commercial rent less interest on improvements, and nearly equivalent to ground rent.

   2. Loosely, a return or profit from a differential advantage for production, as in case of income or earnings due to rare natural gifts creating a natural monopoly.

      Black rent. See Blackmail, 3.

      Forehand rent, rent which is paid in advance; foregift.

      Rent arrear, rent in arrears; unpaid rent.
      --Blackstone.

      Rent charge (Law), a rent reserved on a conveyance of land in fee simple, or granted out of lands by deed; -- so called because, by a covenant or clause in the deed of conveyance, the land is charged with a distress for the payment of it.
      --Bouvier.

      Rent roll, a list or account of rents or income; a rental.

      Rent seck (Law), a rent reserved by deed, but without any clause of distress; barren rent. A power of distress was made incident to rent seck by Statute 4 George II. c. 28.

      Rent service (Eng. Law), rent reserved out of land held by fealty or other corporeal service; -- so called from such service being incident to it.

      White rent, a quitrent when paid in silver; -- opposed to black rent.