tithes

/tay3z/ In English law, the tenth part of the increase, yearly arising and renewing from the profits of lands, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the inhabitants. 2 Bl.Comm. 24. A species of incorporeal hereditament, being an ecclesiastical inheritance collateral to the estate of the land, and due only to an ecclesiastical person by ecclesiastical law.

See also tithing

- tithing-man

- tithing-penny

- tither

@ great tithes

In English ecclesiastical law, tithes of corn, peas and beans, hay and wood.

+ great tithes

In ecclesiastical law, the more valuable tithes: as, corn, hay, and wood.

See tithes

@ minute tithes

Small tithes, such as usually belong to a vicar, as of wool, lambs, pigs, butter, cheese, herbs, seeds, eggs, honey, wax, etc.

@ mixed tithes

Those which arise not immediately from the ground, but from those things which are nourished by the ground, e.g., colts, chickens, calves, milk, eggs, etc.

@ personal tithes

Personal tithes are tithes paid of such profits as come by the labor of a man's person; as by buying and selling, gains of merchandise and handicrafts, etc.

@ predial tithes

Such as arise immediately from the ground; as, grain of all sorts, hay, wood, fruits, and herbs

@ tithe-free

Exempted from the payment of tithes

@ tithe rent-charge

A rent-charge established in lieu of tithes, under the tithes commutation act, 1836 (St. 6 No. 7 Wm. IV, c. 71). As between landlord and tenant, the tenant paying the tithe rent-charge is entitled, in the absence of express agreement, to deduct it from his rent, under section 70 of the above act. And a tithe rentcharge unpaid is recoverable by distress as rent in arrear

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