"ground rent" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: ground rents [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} ground rent (countable and uncountable, plural ground rents)
  1. (law, real estate) 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. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Law, Real estate Translations (1. rent under a ground lease for a surface estate, paid by a ground lessor to a surface owner): retributie [Netherlands, feminine] (Dutch), solarium [Belgium, neuter] (Dutch), rente superficiaire [feminine] (French), Erbbauzins [Germany, neuter] (German), Bauzins [Austrian, Swiss, neuter] (German), canone [masculine] (Italian), solarium [masculine] (Portuguese), canon superficiario [masculine] (Spanish), tomträttsavgäld [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-ground_rent-en-noun-J~lHLRCv Topics: business, law, real-estate Disambiguation of '1. rent under a ground lease for a surface estate, paid by a ground lessor to a surface owner': 92 8
  2. (law, Pennsylvania, Maryland) Rentcharge. Tags: Pennsylvania, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-ground_rent-en-noun-PG1sTK3C Categories (other): Maryland English, Pennsylvania English Topics: law

Inflected forms

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