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Tenant

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A tenant (from the Latin tenere, to hold), in legal contexts, holds real property by some form of title from a landlord.

Various forms of tenancy exist, or have existed in the past. These include:

  • socage
  • burgage
  • tenancy for life
  • tenancy for years
  • tenancy from year to year

Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)


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