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Tenancy   /tˈɛnənsi/   Listen
noun
Tenancy  n.  (pl. tenacies)  (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.






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"Tenancy" Quotes from Famous Books



... blustering, wintry weeks of village speculation and gossip there was of course considerable satisfaction in being the first to solve the mysterious holiday tenancy of the Rattle-Pane House. ...
— Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

... steward whom I interviewed says that it frequently happened that Gathercole arrived and departed without anybody being aware of the fact. We have been to his old lodgings in Lincoln's Inn, but apparently he sold up there before he went away to the wilds of Patagonia and relinquished his tenancy. ...
— The Clue of the Twisted Candle • Edgar Wallace

... listen, for the scheme will commend itself to your ingenious mind. I shall murder you in this room. I shall then give myself up. I shall vacate this body in Newgate prison and your friend may then resume his tenancy or not as he chooses. He may allow the unoccupied body to die in the cell or he may take possession of it and be hanged for murder. Do you appreciate the completeness of my vengeance on you both? Do you think your friend will care to put on his ...
— Revenge! • by Robert Barr

... call, "Catch up! Catch up!" was not heard. The group, the family, the individual now began to show again. True, after their leaders came, one after another, rattling, faded wagons, until the dusty trail that led out across the sage flats had a tenancy stretched out for over a half mile, with yet other vehicles falling in behind; but silent and grim were young and old now ...
— The Covered Wagon • Emerson Hough

... and when a boy assisted his father in the work of the farm. At an early age he exhibited a taste for mechanics, and introduced several improvements in the rude agricultural implements of the period. On the death of his uncle he succeeded to a farm at Blackwall, near Normanton, long in the tenancy of the family, and shortly after he married Miss Wollatt, the daughter of a Derby hosier. Having learned from his wife's brother that various unsuccessful attempts had been made to manufacture ribbed-stockings, he proceeded to study the ...
— Self Help • Samuel Smiles


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