Legal Definition and Related Resources of Alba firma
Meaning of Alba firma
White rents; rents reserved payable in silver, or white money. They were so called to distinguish them from reditus nigri which were rents reserved payable in work, grain, and the like. 2 Inst. 19.
What does Alba firma mean in American Law?
The definition of Alba firma in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:
In old English law, “white rent,” i.e., rent paid in silver money, rather than in grain or other provisions, or in base-metal money, this latter kind being called reditus nigri, i.e., “black rent.”
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Concept of “Alba Firma”
Traditional meaning of alba firma in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) White rent; rent payable in silver, as distinguished from black rents, black mail, payable in corn, work, or the like. Album breve: a blank writ.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Alba Firma”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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