rent-seck Law.
Also 5–7 sec, 6–7 secke, (6 seeke).
[a. AF. rente secque lit. dry rent.]
A rent reserved by deed in favour of some person, without a clause of distress in case of arrears (and so differing from a rent-charge).
This distinction in respect of remedy was abolished in 1731 by the statute 4 Geo. II. c. 28 §5.
| 1472–3 Rolls of Parlt. VI. 5/1 Eny persone aforeseid havyng eny Annuite, Office, Fee, Corrodye, Rent Sek, or Pension. 1523 Fitzherb. Surv. 21 b, It is called a rent seeke bycause there is no dystresse insedent nor belongyng to the same. 1566 Act 8 Eliz. c. 19 §6 All Homages..Rentes Servyces Rentes Charges Rentes Seckes, and the Arrerages of the same. 1628 Coke On Litt. 143 b, Such rent is rent secke, for that hee cannot come to haue the rent if it be denied, by way of distres. 1676 Geo. Dude Law Charitable Uses vi. 76 Katherine Banne grants, by Deed, a Rentseck out of 208 Acres of Land, for relief of the Poor. 1766 Blackstone Comm. II. 42 Rent-seck,..or barren rent, is in effect nothing more than a rent reserved by deed, but without any clause of distress. 1818 Cruise Digest (ed. 2) II. 454 The law says, that neither the right, before it be reduced into possession, nor the rentseck before seisin had, are assets. |