1. An additional lease payment made in anticipation of or in addition to rent. Pl. grassums.
2. GRESSUME.
“Grassum; an anticipation of rent in a gross or lump sum …. In questions with singular successors there is no limitation of the power to take grassums, only the rent must not be thereby diminished so as to be altogether elusory. In regard, however, to lands under entail, the heir in possession must administer the estate secundum bonum et aequum, taking no more of the annually accruing rents and profits than he leaves to descend to his successors. Hence, grassums, as being, in effect, anticipations of the future rents, to the prejudice of succeeding heirs, are held to be struck at by the prohibition against alienation.” William Bell, Bell’s Dictionary and Digest of the Laws of Scotland 492 (George Watson ed., 7th ed. 1890).
