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Major General :: Major general () An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps..

Major :: Major (a.) An officer next in rank above a captain and next below a lieutenant colonel; the lowest field officer.

Underletter :: Underletter (n.) A tenant or lessee who grants a lease to another.

Lieutenantship :: Lieutenantship (n.) Same as Lieutenancy, 1..

Subligation :: Sublieutenant (n.) An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank..

Avenage :: Avenage (n.) A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent.

Talliage :: Talliage (n.) A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses..

Undertenant :: Undertenant (n.) The tenant of a tenant; one who holds lands or tenements of a tenant or lessee.

Dryfland :: Dryfland (n.) An ancient yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets..

Holder :: Holder (n.) One who holds land, etc., under another; a tenant..

Lieutenant :: Lieutenant (n.) A commissioned officer in the British navy, in rank next below a commander..

Waste :: Waste (v.) Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder..

Haybote :: Haybote (n.) An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote.

Farm :: Farm (a. & n.) Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner..

Lieutenancy :: Lieutenancy (n.) The office, rank, or commission, of a lieutenant..

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

Escheat :: Escheat (n.) The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder..

Cotenant :: Cotenant (n.) A tenant in common, or a joint tenant..

Bordlode :: Bordlode (n.) The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house..

Tenant :: Tenant (n.) One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.

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