Yield


The term “yield” refers to the act of giving up, relinquishing, or surrendering.  The term also refers to a return from an investment or expenditure.  The dividends or interest paid by a company expressed as a percentage of the current price.

In old English law, to perform a service due by a tenant to his lord. Hence the usual form of reservation of a rent in a lease began with the words “yielding and paying.”