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(law) In feudal law, the reducing of lands or tenements to mortmain.
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(historical) In the Russian Empire, a person who farmed local rents or revenues.
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(feudal law) The consent of a tenant to the transfer of his relationship to his landlord to another person.
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(law) A qualified fee; a freehold estate of inheritance to which a qualification is annexed.
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(law) A person for whose use land, etc., is granted to another.
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charter ownership agreements
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(property law, England & Wales) The freehold tenure of part of a multioccupancy building (typically a flat) with shared responsibility for common services.
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The legal tenure involved.
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That which is connected with a tenement, or thing holden, as a certain quantity of land adjacent to a dwelling, and necessary to the reputable enjoyment of the dwelling.
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(obsolete) copyhold; tenure; lease
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(property law, historical) A former form of tenure in which the title deeds were a copy of the manorial roll.
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(historical) A person who rents land under the copyhold system.
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(UK, law) A rent reserved by deed, without a clause of distress.
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(law, common law) The property or estate so transferred.
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(Northern England, Scotland, rare) Inheritance; patrimony.
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(law, historical) The freedom of a tenant to take necessary wood from the land occupied by that tenant.
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(property law, England & Wales) An agricultural tenancy agreed on or after 1 September 1995, made under the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995.
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(law) An inheritable estate in land, whether absolute and without limitation to potential heirs (fee simple) or with limitations to particular kinds of heirs (fee tail).
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(law, England & Wales, formal, idiomatic) The unqualified and unrestricted ownership of an estate in land; freehold tenure.
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(law, UK) A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession
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(law, UK) The freehold of property in an upper storey above a lower storey that belongs to a different freehold.
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A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; - called also tenure by free alms.
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A code; a charter; a grant of privileges.
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The land held by a fullholder.
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(law) The holding of a tenant of the Crown.
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(law, Scotland) An estate created in land by a vassal who instead of selling his land outright reserves an annual ground rent, which becomes a perpetual charge upon the land.
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(law, real estate) Rent paid under a ground lease, usually long-term or in perpetuity, for a surface right or estate in land where the landowner (surface owner) and the owner of improvements (ground lessor) are separate; the improvements are effectively security for the payment of the rent.
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A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
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Someone who does not have title to a house, but has possession and is paying for it by instalments
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(law) In Scotland, a landlord's right over the stocking (cattle, implements, etc.), and crops of his tenant, as security for payment of rent.
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(law) A proprietary interest (such as ownership, a right or some other benefit) in relation to some land, which may be held in gross or appurtenant to some other interest.
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(historical, Scotland) A tenant of the same stock as his landlord, or who held his lands in succession, from father to son, for several generations.
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(US, Nebraska, historical) A claimant of land under the provisions of the Kinkaid Act.
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A landholding, a piece of land that is held (owned).
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Performing duties of a landlord.
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An open pasture or common.
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A leasehold estate in land.
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The status or role of lessee.
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Land held by a life estate.
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(law, UK, obsolete) Land that has been granted temporarily, without any loss of ownership.
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(law, Scotland) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
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The holding by a temporary substitute of a post.
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(historical, US) The acquisition of the Louisiana territory (828,000 square miles or 2.14 million km²) by the United States from France in 1803.
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(law) The perpetual, inalienable possession of lands by a corporation or non-personal entity such as a church.
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The situation in which multiple tenants occupy a single residence or building.
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(copyright law) Synonym of related right
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The period of time during which someone rents or otherwise occupies certain land or premises.
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The owner or tenant of a property.
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The ownership of such land.
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(law) A right that attaches to land, in Scots law.
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(England & Wales, law) A lease for the surface of some land or structure (such as a bridge), which excludes the subsurface or land beneath.
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Holding a plot of land.
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(law) Where a grantor has created a fee simple subject to condition subsequent, and the condition of the grant has come to pass, the right of the grantor to physically reclaim ownership of the land.
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(Britain) The hierarchy of owned housing.
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The operation, control and oversight of real estate.
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A business that rents out something to its customers.
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Alternative form of rentaller [(Scotland, historical) A person, especially a kindly tenant, having land tenure by rental right.]
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(Scotland, historical) A person, especially a kindly tenant, having land tenure by rental right.
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(law) One who owns or controls property and rents that property to another.
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A devoted fan of the musical Rent, originally in reference to those fans that spent a night outside the Nederlander Theatre in order to get $20 tickets to the show.
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(political science) A state that derives all or much of its national revenue from the rent of indigenous resources to external clients.
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(law, historical) An entitlement to a freehold estate with a right to immediate possession; dates from feudal times but is still used in technical discussions of real property law today.
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(chiefly UK) An agent or agency that provides social housing.
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(law) Situated or built on another person's land.
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(law) The joining together of consecutive periods of possession of property, especially between squatters in cases of adverse possession.
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(law) A form of ownership by two or more individuals in which each owner has a distinct, separately transferable interest which does not pass to the other owner or owners upon death.
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(chiefly historical) One who holds a feudal tenure in real property.
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One who holds lands at the will of the owner.
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a person who farms land rented from a landlord
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(law, historical) A tenant holding title to their land directly from a lord paramount beholden to no-one; particularly, a lord holding title directly from the king, owing additional responsibilities such as personal military service.
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The state or act of being a tenant.
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Obsolete form of tenant. [One who holds a lease (a tenancy).]
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Of or pertaining to a tenement; capable of being held by tenants.
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Obsolete form of tenant. [One who holds a lease (a tenancy).]
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A period of time during which something is possessed.
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(law, formal) An estate in land held under a lease which is not perpetual or indefinite in length, though in some cases may be contingent on some guaranteed occurrence.
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(law, England & Wales, formal, misleading) An estate in land held for a term of years of either a specified length or on a periodic basis, and which is not a term of years determinable (though may be determinable for other reasons); a leasehold estate in land.
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(law, England & Wales, idiomatic, historical) The lease under which that estate in land was held.
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(law) One who has an estate for a term of years or for life.
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A property jointly owned or leased by multiple people who are allowed to use (or sublet) it only during specified periods each year.
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(Ireland, historical) A custom that gave tenants of Ulster in Ireland a reasonable expectation of security of tenure as long as they paid their rent, and allowed them to sell the right to occupy their holding to another tenant acceptable to the landlord.
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(New Zealand) The socialist policy of replacing freehold tenure by a system of perpetual lease from the state, with all land transfer conducted through the state.
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(law, Scotland) Rents or profits of an estate obtained by a tenant wrongfully holding over after warning. They are recoverable in a process of removing.
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