Tenement

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Meaning of Tenement

That which is the subject of tenure . Includes both corporeal and incorporeal hereditaments such as rents and profits issuing out of land or offices or dignities concerning land. Hertz v Abrahams, 110 Ga. 707, 36 S.E. 409. The term is properly applicable only to freehold estates. See Hutchinson v Br am hall, 42 N.J. Eq. 372, 7 A. 873. Also means building containing several apartments.

Tenement Alternative Definition

(from Lat. teneo, to hold). Everything of a permanent nature which may be holden. Its original meaning, according to some, was house or homestead. Jacob. In modern use, it also signifies , rooms let in houses. 10 Wheat. (U. S.) 204. In its most extensive signification, “tenement” comprehends everything which may be holden, provided it be of a permanent nature; and not only lands and inheritances which are holden, but also rents and profits a prendre of which a man has any frank tenement, and of which he may be seised ut de libera tenemento, are included under this term. Co. Litt. 6a; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; 1 Washb. Real Prop. 10; 17 Pick. (Mass.) 105. But the word “tenement” simply, without other circumstances, has never been construed to pass a fee. 10 Wheat. (U. S.) 204. See 4 Bing. 293; 1 Term R. 358; 3 Term R. 772; 3 East, 113 5 East, 239; 1 Barn. & Adol. 161; Comyn, Dig. “Grant” (E 2), “Trespass” (A 2); 1 Washb. Real Prop. 10. Bracton says that tenements acquired by a villein were as to the lord in the same condition as chattels, because bought with the chattels which rightfully belong to the lord. Bracton, 26.

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Dominant Tenement, Easement, Feoffment, Permissive Waste, Profit A Prendre, Rack-rent, Restrictive Covenants, Reversion, Secondary Easement, .

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