单词 | tenure at will |
释义 | > as lemmastenure at will a. The condition of service, etc., under which a tenement is held of the superior; the title by which the property is held; the relations, rights, and duties of the tenant to the landlord. tenure at will: cf. tenant at will n. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] tenure1436 investiture1549 land-tenure1876 1436 Rolls of Parl. IV. 501/2 Ye Five Portes and tenure of Gavelkynde. 1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xi. f. 12 It is to be enquered..who holdeth by charter and who nat, and who by the olde tenure. 1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xi. f. 12 All these tenauntes maye holde their landes by dyuers tenures, customes, and seruyces: as by homage, fealtie, escuage, socage..burgage, tenures, and tenure in vyllenage. 1554 Act 1 & 2 Philip & Mary c. 8 §54 The Donor..maye reserve to him and his heires for ever a Tenure in Franck Almoigne. 1605 W. Camden Remaines (1637) 132 As he that held Land by tenure to say a certaine number of Pater nosters for the soules of the Kings of England. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Ttt1 Tenure is the manner, whereby tenements are houlden of their Lords. 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 85 b Tenure in Socage, is where the Tenant holdeth of his Lord the tenancie by certaine seruice for all manner of seruices, so that the seruice be not Knights seruice. 1641 A. Mervyn Speech at Impeachm. Richard Bolton 7 The abortive judgment of the tenure In capite, where no tenure was exprest. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. Introd. iii. 73 A very extensive comment upon a little excellent treatise of tenures, compiled by judge Littleton in the reign of Edward the fourth. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. xiii. 398 Those, who by their military tenures were bound to perform forty days service in the field. 1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 45 The right of voting is vested by burgess tenure, in certain houses. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 7 The circumstance of annexing a condition of military service to a grant of lands does not imply that they are held by a feudal tenure. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 27 Where lands held by an allodial tenure were voluntarily converted into feuds. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 381 Enfranchisement, by which the tenure is changed from base to free. 1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. xii. 549 Involving a complicated texture of rights and tenures, which almost defied unravelling. 1875 J. C. Curtis Elem. Hist. Eng. 396 The statute 12 Car. II, c. 24, which abolished the military tenures, converting them into freehold. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Mar. 7/1 The new and purely tenure-at-will system gradually gaining ground. 1908 Fenland Notes & Queries Apr. 177 Keyhold Tenure at Crowland... That house was his because he built it, and because he held the key which admitted him to it and enabled him to keep other people out of it. < as lemmas |
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