tenementn.

1315 Rolls of Parl. I. 349/2 Johan de Eston demaunda ces Tenementz,..come son dreit.]

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 48 If he saued to his heyers oiþer lond or tenement.

c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) iii. 114 Somme of thaim þat were wont to pay to his lorde for his tenement, wich he hiryth by the yere, a scute.

1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xvi. 52 I shal..make hym pryuated from all his tenementes that he holdeth of me.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 60 This deere deere land,..Is now leasde out..Like to a tenement or pelting Farme. View more context for this quotation

1700 J. Tyrrell Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 812 The Tenement (i.e. the Real Estate) of the Deceased.

1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. ii. 16 Tenement is a word of still greater extent [than land], and though in it's vulgar acceptation it is only applied to houses and other buildings, yet in it's original, proper, and legal sense, it signifies every thing that may be holden, provided it be of a permanent nature; whether it be of a substantial and sensible, or of an unsubstantial ideal kind.

1810 W. Wordsworth Descr. Lakes in J. Wilkinson Select Views p. xvi The multitude of tenements (I..mean..small divisions of land) which belonged formerly each to its several proprietor, and for which separate fines are paid to the manorial lord at this day.

1292 Britton i. xix. §4 Et ausi des terres et des tenementz alienez par felouns.]

a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) x. 64 No religious, ore ani oþer, ani londes ore tenemens buche ne sulle..on ani maner..wareþoru þat thulke londes ore tenemens in ani manere miȝtte comen into dede hond.

1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VIII. 265 Kyng Edward and þe lordes made a statute aȝenst maynmort, so þat after þat tyme no man schulde ȝeve..ne by oþere title assigne londes, tenementis ne oþer rentes to men of religioun wiþouten þe kynges leve.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxvii Statutes made to refourme suche persones as mysused the Landes and tenementes commynge to theym by reason of the Dower or landes of theyr wyues.

1529 Will of Thomas Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) I. 56 I will myn executours undernamed..shall purchase londes tenementes and hereditamentes to the clere yerelye value of xxxiij^li vj^s viij^d.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 280/1 Tenementes, reuenues.

1542 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 33 The one halff off all the saide lands, tennandments, rents and all other servyces, with revertions and appertenawnces belonging ye same.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 142 The Shirifes of London at those dayes might lawfully enter into the towne of Westminster, and all other Tenementes, that the Abbot had within Middlesex.

1580 T. Lupton Siuqila 141 All deedes and writings of any lands, tenements, houses, woods, or such like, that are solde.

a1642 R. Callis Reading of Statute of Sewers (1647) ii. 108 The word Tenements is of larger extent then Lands; for it containeth all which the word Lands doth, and all things else which lyeth in Tenure.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 322 He [was] then possessed of several lands and tenements in Taunton.

1806 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. VI. 191 The words, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, will pass every species of real property.

1848 J. Williams Law Personal Prop. (1870) 1 In ancient times property was divided into lands, tenements and hereditaments on the one hand, and goods and chattels on the other.

1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. ii. 59 The word ‘tenements’ now becomes the technical expression for things immoveable, considered as the subjects of property, they being not ‘owned’, but ‘holden’.

c1425 Brut 367 So was he brouȝt to þe Whit-Freris yn Flet-strete; and þere was do and made a ryal & solempne tenement for hym.

1477–9 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 84 For ij ml tiles spent in reparacion of the tenement of William Blase and of othir tenementes, x s viij d.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xiii. x. 9 Syne Troianis foundis tenementis for thame self.

1588 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 159 The lease..in the tenement where I now dwell.

1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue iii. 106 Whether are there within this Mannor, any new erected Tenements or Cotages, barnes, Walls.

1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 95 The tenement contains many families, who live in cabins on each side of a wide common hall, that goes through the middle of it.

1833 H. Martineau Briery Creek iii The resources which they wasted would have..turned their habitation of logs into a respectable brick tenement.

1844 J. Williams Real Prop. Law (1875) 13 The word tenement is often used in law, as in ordinary language, to signify a house.

1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) vii. 62 The dingy tenement inhabited by Miss Tox was her own.

1592 G. Harvey Foure Lett. iii, in Wks. (1884) I. 195 The poore tennement of his Purse..hath bene the Diuels Dauncing schoole, anie time this halfe yeare.

1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) iv. ii. 136 Doubt not but selfe-loue and vanitie possesse the best tenement of his heart.

1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iii. i. 130 My wearie soule, that long hath bin An Inmate in this Tenement of Sin.

1640 T. Carew Poems 91 The purest Soule that e're was sent Into a clayie tenement.

a1668 W. Davenant Jeffereidos ii, in Wks. (1673) 226 Snaile..with all his Tenement on 's back.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 371 Their nest is generally the original tenement of the squirrel.

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. vi. 176 That spirit—now struggling to quit its material tenement.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 53 b Almes-houses..let out in Tenements.

1625 Procl. 1 Chas. I 2 May [Concerning Buildings] That no person..within the City of London..doe diuide any dwelling House..into or for any more Tenements or dwellings, then are at this present..vsed within the same.

1817 D. Webster Speech in Goodrich Case Apr. U.S. (Cent. Dict.) The two tenements, it was true, were under the same roof; but they were not on that account the same tenements.

1898 Daily News 14 Nov. 5/1 The Council never have any unlet, except a few four-room tenements for which there is less demand than for those with only two or three rooms.

1905 Daily News 28 Sept. 9 Mr. J. Keir Hardie, M.P., claimed as occupier of a tenement at Nevill's-court.

1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. ii. vii. §6 When divers Owners have parts of the same Tenement, it cannot be said to be a perfect division, because the Roof remaineth Roof to both, and the ground supporteth both.

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Tenement..often denoting a building which includes several separate dwellings; as a tenement of houses.

1825 R. Chambers Trad. Edinb. 172 How the great of the land could live in the fourth and fifth flats of wooden tenements, the various apartments of which, as occupied at present by humble mechanics, seem confined and inconvenient to the last degree.

1841 in J. Rankine Treat. Ownership Lands Scotl. (1879) xxxiii. 509 Houses so often found in Scotland, called technically ‘lands’, or ‘tenements of land’—terms which have been defined as applicable to ‘a single or individual building, although containing several dwelling-houses, with, it may be, separate means of access, but under the same roof and enclosed by the same gables or walls’.

1910 Scotsman 8 Oct. 3/3 For Sale by Public Roup..(1) Six self-contained Dwelling Houses... (2) House, No. 27 St. Bernard's Crescent... (3) Tenement, No. 12 St. Bernard's Crescent.