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Definition of tenants

Tenant
Tenant Ten"ant, n. [F. tenant, p. pr. of tenir to hold. See Tenable, and cf. Lieutenant.] 1. (Law) One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from --Blackstone, under Tenement, 2. --Blount. Wharton. 2. One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant. ``Sweet tenants of this grove.' --Cowper. The hhappy tenant of your shade. --Cowley. The sister tenants of the middle deep. --Byron. Tenant in capite [L. in in + capite, abl. of caput head, chief.], or Tenant in chief, by the laws of England, one who holds immediately of the king. According to the feudal system, all lands in England are considered as held immediately or mediately of the king, who is styled lord paramount. Such tenants, however, are considered as having the fee of the lands and permanent possession. --Blackstone. Tenant in common. See under Common.

Meaning of tenants from wikipedia

- landholders) in the late 13th Century; a lord would own land, and the tenants became v****als. Leasehold estates can still be Crown land today. For example...
- US retail, an "anchor tenant", sometimes called an "anchor store", "draw tenant", or "key tenant", is a considerably larger tenant in a shopping mall, often...
- film The Tenant (novel), a novel by Roland Topor The Tenants (2005 film), 2005 film drama starring Dylan McDermott and Snoop Dogg The Tenant (2023 film)...
- Look up tenant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Tenants may refer to: The Tenants (novel), a 1971 Bernard Malamud novel The Tenants (1986 film)...
- sub-v****als being emplo**** by tenants-in-chief against the crown. In the great feudal survey Domesday Book (1086), tenants-in-chief were listed first in...
- situation but is increasingly disturbed by the apartment and the other tenants. He frequently sees his neighbors standing motionless in the toilet room...
- Tenant-right is a term in the common law system expressing the right to compensation which a tenant has, either by custom or by law, against his landlord...
- These are lists of the major tenants of the former World Trade Center in New York City at the time of the attacks in 2001. 1 World Trade Center (North...
- Free tenants, also known as free peasants, were tenant farmer peasants in medieval England who occupied a unique place in the medieval hierarchy. They...
- co-owners. Legal terminology for co-owners of real estate is either co-tenants or joint tenants, with the latter phrase signifying a right of survivorship. Most...