单词 | arrière tenant |
释义 | arrière tenantn. historical. Now rare. A tenant who holds an estate from a mesne lord; a subtenant. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > one who has tenure > [noun] > by subtenure subtenant1445 under-tenant1546 tenant paravail1579 underholder1605 arrière tenant1843 1843 H. B. Barry Advantages & Disadvantages Feudal Syst. 12 The privileges of the arriere tenants, though apparently analogous to those of their lords, seem to have had in a great measure a mere nominal existence. 1918 C. H. Haskins Norman Inst. i. 10 The Norman monasteries..appear as arriere tenants in the registers of the French kings. 1934 Coll. Hist. Staffs. 1933 ii. 5 Ulfac may have continued to hold Whitmore as arriere tenant under Nigel. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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