Blanch fee
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Blanch fee, or blanch holding (from Fr. blanc, white), an ancient tenure in Scottish land law, the duty payable being in silver or "white" money in contradistinction to gold. The phrase was afterwards applied to any holding of which the quit-rent was merely nominal, such as a penny, a peppercorn, &c.
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