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Webster 1913 Edition

Tenancy

Ten′an-cy

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Tenacies
(#)
.
[Cf. OF.
tenace
, LL.
tenentia
. See
Tenant
.]
(Law)
(a)
A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another.
(b)
(O. Eng. Law)
A house for habitation, or place to live in, held of another.
Blount. Blackstone. Wharton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Tenancy

TEN'ANCY

,
Noun.
[L. tenens.] In law, a holding or possession of lands or tenements; tenure; as tenancy in fee simple; tenancy in tail; tenancy by the curtesy; tenancy at will. Tenancy in common happens where there is a unity of possession merely.

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