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Definition of tenant

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Tenant (n.) One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2..

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Ter-tenant :: Ter-tenant (n.) See Terre-tenant.

Undertenancy :: Undertenancy (n.) Tenancy or tenure under a tenant or lessee; the tenure of an undertenant.

Formedon :: Formedon (n.) A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.

Terre-tenant :: Terre-tenant (n.) One who has the actual possession of land; the occupant.

Merchet :: Merchet (n.) In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters..

Eject :: Eject (v. t.) To cast out; to evict; to dispossess; as, to eject tenants from an estate..

Feudary :: Feudary (n.) A tenant who holds his lands by feudal service; a feudatory.

Commander :: Commander (n.) An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army..

Tenantless :: Tenantless (a.) Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion..

Base :: Base (a.) Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant..

Rent :: Rent (n.) A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc..

Landlady :: Landlady (n.) A woman having real estate which she leases to a tenant or tenants.

In-going :: In-going (a.) Going; entering, as upon an office or a possession; as, an in-going tenant..

Cesser :: Cesser (v. i.) a neglect of a tenant to perform services, or make payment, for two years..

Avercorn :: Avercorn (n.) A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers..

Leaseholder :: Leaseholder (n.) A tenant under a lease.

Tac :: Tac (n.) A kind of customary payment by a tenant; -- a word used in old records.

Colonel :: Colonel (n.) The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general.

Ploughbote :: Ploughbote (n.) Wood or timber allowed to a tenant for the repair of instruments of husbandry. See Bote.

Tenementary :: Tenementary (a.) Capable of being leased; held by tenants.