Waleska Velez v. Cuyahoga Metro. Housing Authority, 795 F.3d 578 (2015)

Citation: Waleska Velez v. Cuyahoga Metro. Housing Authority, 795 F.3d 578 (2015)
Parent Document: Waleska Velez v. Cuyahoga Metro. Housing Authority, 795 F.3d 578 (2015)
Jurisdiction: United States (federal)
Effective Date: 2015-07-30
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2821966/waleska-velez-v-cuyahoga-metro-... ↗

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Shortly after Congress enacted the Act, the Supreme Court reaffirmed the prevailing
federal definition of rent: “Rent is a fixed sum, or property amounting to a fixed sum, to be paid
at stated times for the use of property[.]” M.E. Blatt Co. v. United States, 305 U.S. 267, 277–78
(1938) (quoting Duffy v. Cent. R. Co. of N.J., 268 U.S. 55, 63 (1925) (defining the term
“rentals”)) (internal quotation marks omitted).                 Dictionaries around the time of enactment
similarly understood rent as the amount paid to use the rental dwelling. The legal definition of
rent recognized by a contemporary edition of Webster’s New International Dictionary was:

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