In English land law, a rentcharge is an annual sum paid by the owner of freehold land, called the terre-tenant, to the owner of the rentcharge, called the rentcharger, who need have no other legal interest in the land. Rentcharges are often known as chief rents in the north west of England, while the term ground rent is used in many parts of the country to refer either to a rentcharge or to a rent payable on leasehold land. This is confusing, because a true ground rent is a sum payable in relation to land held under a lease rather than freehold land. As a result, the first question a conveyancer or other adviser will ask is whether the land is freehold or leasehold, which can be established from information held by the Land Registry.
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an annual sum paid by the owner of freehold land to the owner of the rentchargeView the Source Rentcharge (Wikipedia)
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