"Rent-free" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... disputed, but cannot be used as a precedent by others on the same part of the estate, and I will state why.'—'More of Peter Gill's conciliatory policy! The Regans, for having been twice in gaol, and once indicted, and nearly convicted of Ribbonism, have established a claim to live rent-free! This I will promise to rectify.'—'I shall make no more allowances for improvements without a guarantee, and ...
— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever
... was very common in later Babylonian times. The most typical examples are houses. The lender (M644) has a house in pledge. To him it is rent-free until the loan is repaid. Hence the common phrase "rent is nought, interest is nought." There was then no reckoning made one against the other.(691) The creditor might not, however, care to take the pledge in perpetuity against interest ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters • C. H. W. Johns
... owner he is not simply profiting by the disorganization of authority. He must understand that the abolition of rent is a recognized principle, sanctioned, so to speak, by popular assent; that to be housed rent-free is a right proclaimed ...
— The Conquest of Bread • Peter Kropotkin |
