Tenancy: alternatives and connections

The sudden removal of lands or soil from the estate of one man to that of another by an inundation or a current, or by a sudden change…

The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes…

Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base,…

Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent…

A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent (silver) or otherwise.

A tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for which the tenant has nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward o…

The keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may have been lawfu…

One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance.

The condition of enjoying anything; pleasure or satisfaction, as in the possession or occupancy of anything; possession and use; as, t…

Necessaries or supples; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., o…

property; possession; tenure.

A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thi…

A certain tenure in tail special; an estate of inheritance given to a man his wife (the wife being of the blood of the donor), and des…

A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of praying for…

An estate in real property, of inheritance (in fee simple or fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held.

Land; estate; possession; field; esp. (pl.), the gardens, lawns, fields, etc., belonging to a homestead; as, the grounds of the estate…

The act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms; the manner of holding, whether firm or loose; seizure; grasp; clasp; gripe; posse…

A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.