A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Top-annual, -annuell, n. [Top n.1 and Annual n. or adj.] An annual rent payable out of the rent of a building as distinct from the land it stands on (cf. Ground-annual(l n., Grund-annuall n.). —1597 Skene Verb. S. s.v. Annuell.
Top annuell is ane certaine dewtie given and disponed furth of onie bigged tenement, or land, of the quhilk tenement the propertie remains with the disponer & he is onelie oblished to pay the said annuell 1681 Stair Inst. ii v § 7.
Ground-annual is a distinct several annualrent, constitute upon the ground, before the house was built; and the top-annualrent is out of the house 1691 Retours I Inq. Spec. Fife (1315).
Cum lie ground et top annuals
