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Tithe commutation
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<p>Tithe commutation was a 19th-century reform of <a href="/facts/Land_tenure/zf9fEcFx">land tenure</a> in Great Britain and Ireland, which implemented an exchange of the payment of a <a href="/facts/Tithe/K1cNtpDy">tithe</a> to the clergy of the <a href="/facts/Established_church/K7E28FLL">established church</a>, which were traditionally paid <a href="/facts/In_kind/cz2LsVxD">in kind</a>, to a system based in an annual cash payment, or once-and-for-all payment. The system had become complex, with lay owners by <a href="/facts/Impropriation/n5K1mAN1">impropriation</a> entitled to some tithes, which were of a number of kinds. </p>