A rent for agricultural land paid in corn, or one the amount of which is determined each year according to the price of corn.
1809. Tomlins, Law Dict., Corn-rents.
1845. Penny Cycl., Suppl. I. 420/2. Corn-rent is a money-rent varying in amount according to the fluctuations of the price of corn. In many parts of the south of Scotland corn-rents are paid according to the fiar prices of corn, as determined in each county by a jury.
1866. Rogers, Agric. & Prices, I. iv. 72. He [the Cuxham serf] pays a corn-rent of one quarter of seed-wheat at Michaelmas, [etc.].
1878. F. A. Walker, Money, I. viii. 159. To a certain limited extent such a substitute, where lands are to be leased, has been found in corn-rents.
