Tenement
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Meaning of Tenement
That which is the subject of tenure. Includes both corporeal and incorporeal hereditaments such as rents and profits issuing out of land or offices or dignities concerning land. Hertz v Abrahams, 110 Ga. 707, 36 S.E. 409. The term is properly applicable only to freehold estates. See Hutchinson v Br am hall, 42 N.J. Eq. 372, 7 A. 873. Also means building containing several apartments.
Tenement Alternative Definition
(from Lat. teneo, to hold). Everything of a permanent nature which may be holden. Its original meaning, according to some, was house or homestead. Jacob. In modern use, it also signifies , rooms let in houses. 10 Wheat. (U. S.) 204. In its most extensive signification, "tenement" comprehends everything which may be holden, provided it be of a permanent nature; and not only lands and inheritances which are holden, but also rents and profits a prendre of which a man has any frank tenement, and of which he may be seised ut de libera tenemento, are included under this term. Co. Litt. 6a; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; 1 Washb. Real Prop. 10; 17 Pick. (Mass.) 105. But the word "tenement" simply, without other circumstances, has never been construed to pass a fee. 10 Wheat. (U. S.) 204. See 4 Bing. 293; 1 Term R. 358; 3 Term R. 772; 3 East, 113 5 East, 239; 1 Barn. & Adol. 161; Comyn, Dig. "Grant" (E 2), "Trespass" (A 2); 1 Washb. Real Prop. 10. Bracton says that tenements acquired by a villein were as to the lord in the same condition as chattels, because bought with the chattels which rightfully belong to the lord. Bracton, 26.
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