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Webster 1913 Edition
Tenure
1.
The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate.
That the
tenure
of estates might rest on equity, the Indian title to lands was in all cases to be quieted. Bancroft.
2.
(Eng. Law)
The manner of holding lands and tenements of a superior.
☞ Tenure is inseparable from the idea of property in land, according to the theory of the English law; and this idea of tenure pervades, to a considerable extent, the law of real property in the United States, where the title to land is essentially allodial, and almost all lands are held in fee simple, not of a superior, but the whole right and title to the property being vested in the owner. Tenure, in general, then, is the particular manner of holding real estate, as by exclusive title or ownership, by fee simple, by fee tail, by courtesy, in dower, by copyhold, by lease, at will, etc.
3.
The consideration, condition, or service which the occupier of land gives to his lord or superior for the use of his land.
4.
Manner of holding, in general;
as, in absolute governments, men hold their rights by a precarious
. tenure
All that seems thine own,
Held by the
Held by the
tenure
of his will alone. Cowper.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tenure
TEN'URE
,Noun.
1.
A holding. In English law, the manner of holding lands and tenements of a superior. All the species of ancient tenures may be reduced to four, three of which subsist to this day. 1. Tenure by knight service, which was the most honorable. This is now abolished. 2. Tenure in free socage, or by a certain and determinate service, which is either free and honorable, or villain and base. 3. Tenure by copy of court roll, or copyhold tenure. 4. Tenure in ancient demain. There was also tenure in frankalmoign, or free alms. The tenure in free and common socage has absorbed most of the others.In the United States, almost all lands are held in fee simple; not of a superior, but the whole right and title to the property being vested in the owner.
Tenure in general, then, is the particular manner of holding real estate, as by exclusive title or ownership, by fee simple, by fee tail, by curtesy, in dower, by copyhold, by lease, at will, &c.
2.
The consideration, condition or service which the occupier of land gives to his lord or superior for the use of his land.3.
Manner of holding in general. In absolute governments, men hold their rights by a precarious tenure.Definition 2024
tenure
tenure
English
Noun
tenure (countable and uncountable, plural tenures)
- A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.
- Cowper
- All that seems thine own, / Held by the tenure of his will alone.
- Cowper
- A period of time during which something is possessed.
- A status of having a permanent post with enhanced job security within an academic institution.
- A right to hold land under the feudal system.
Synonyms
- (a status of possessing a thing or an office): incumbency
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
a status of possessing a thing or an office
a period of time possessed
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a status of having a permanent post
a right to hold land
Verb
tenure (third-person singular simple present tenures, present participle tenuring, simple past and past participle tenured)
- (transitive) To grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone).
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tə.nyʁ/
Noun
tenure f (plural tenures)
- (historical) tenure (right to hold land under the feudal system)
Anagrams
Old French
Alternative forms
- teneure (common), teneüre, tenëure (diaereses are not universally used in Old French transcriptions)
- tenuire
- tennure
- tenour
- tenuere
Noun
tenure f (oblique plural tenures, nominative singular tenure, nominative plural tenures)
- tenure (right to hold land under the feudal system)
- holding (of land); estate
- tenure, right of possession
- 1283, Philippe de Beaumanoir, Les Coutumes de Beauvaisis, available in page 237 of this document
- le longue tenure qu'il alliguent ne lor vaut riens
- The long tenure that they are claiming is worth nothing to them
- le longue tenure qu'il alliguent ne lor vaut riens
- 1283, Philippe de Beaumanoir, Les Coutumes de Beauvaisis, available in page 237 of this document
References
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (teneure)
- tenure on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub