Usually means: Owner of land adjoining another.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. terre-tenant: Wordnik
  2. terre-tenant: Wiktionary
  3. Terre-tenant: Dictionary.com
  4. Terre-tenant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. terre-tenant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Terre-tenant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. terre-tenant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. terre-tenant: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Terre-tenant: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Terre-tenant: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (terre-tenant)

noun:  (law) One who has the actual possession of land; the occupant.
noun:  (law) The owner of land acquired from a judgment debtor.
noun:  (law) The owner of land subject to a rentcharge.

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