Quitrent Title relates to a kind of tenure (Permission to Occupy) that was issued by a magistrate (to a person of at least 18 years or older) in the late 1880s up until 1936 in terms of the Transkei and Cape Ordinances, and not the Deeds Registration Act. The term Quitrent literally means: "pay rent or quit the land if rent is not paid". The recipient of the Quitrent had to pay a fee on an annual basis to the Magistrate's Office and could not cede or transfer the land to anyone else, including family members. Therefore a Quitrent was never included in a person's estate. Such a Title was issued for a particular land use (e.g. agriculture or business - "trading stations") and only to a specific person. Some Quitrents were converted to full Title in the early 1940s and 1960s prior to the democratic dispensation in 1994, but not in the former Transkei.