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ground rent

noun

Definitions

  1. Rent paid under a ground lease, usually long-term or in perpetuity, for a surface right…

    Rent paid under a ground lease, usually long-term or in perpetuity, for a surface right or estate in land where the landowner (surface owner) and the owner of improvements (ground lessor) are separate; the improvements are effectively security for the payment of the rent.

    • "You had better go to the devil and ask him for my ground-rent," he said.

  2. Rentcharge.

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