in a general sense, an appellation given to whatever returns every year, or is always performed within that space of time.

ANNUAL Motion of the Earth. See ASTRONOMY.

ANNUAL Leaves, are such leaves as come up afresh in the spring, and perish in winter. These stand opposed to Evergreens.

ANNUAL Plants, called also simply annuals, are such as only live their year, i.e., come up in the spring and die again in the autumn; and accordingly are to be recruited every year.

ANNUALRENT is used, in Scots law, to denote an yearly profit due by a debtor in a sum of money to a creditor for the use of it.

Right of ANNUALRENT, in Scots law, the original method of burdening lands with an yearly payment for the loan of money, before the taking of interest for money was allowed by statute.

ANNUEL or NORWAY, of which mention is made in the acts of parliament of King James III., was an annual payment of an hundred marks Sterling, which the kings of Scotland were obliged to pay to the kings of Norway, in satisfaction for some pretensions which the latter had to the Scottish kingdom, by virtue of a conveyance made thereof by Malcolm Kenmore, who usurped the crown after his brother's decease. This annuel was first established in 1266; in consideration whereof the Norwegians renounced all title to the succession to the isles of Scotland. It was paid till the year 1468, when the annuel, with all its arrears, was renounced in the contract of marriage between king James III. and Margaret daughter of Christian I., king of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden.