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Pepper-Corn

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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The fruit or seed of the pepper plant; hence anything very small or insignificant. Pepper-corn rent is a merely nominal rent, reserved for the purpose of having the tenancy acknowledged by the tenant. Building leases frequently reserve a pepper-corn as rent for the first few years. See Rent.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Pepper-Corn'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​p/pepper-corn.html. 1910.
 
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