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Tenantless :: Tenantless (a.) Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion..

Ter-tenant :: Ter-tenant (n.) See Terre-tenant.

Riptowel :: Riptowel (n.) A gratuity given to tenants after they had reaped their lord's corn.

Coigny :: Coigny (n.) The practice of quartering one's self as landlord on a tenant; a quartering of one's self on anybody.

Cornage :: Cornage (n.) Anancient tenure of land, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn..

Attorn :: Attorn (v. t.) To turn, or transfer homage and service, from one lord to another. This is the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants, upon the alienation of the estate..

Tenanting :: Tenanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tenan.

Lieutenant :: Lieutenant (n.) A commissioned officer in the United States navy, in rank next below a lieutenant commander..

Lieutenantship :: Lieutenantship (n.) Same as Lieutenancy, 1..

Waste :: Waste (v.) Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder..

Governor General :: Governor general () A governor who has lieutenant or deputy governors under him; as, the governor general of Canada, of India..

Lieutenancy :: Lieutenancy (n.) The body of lieutenants or subordinates.

Bordlode :: Bordlode (n.) The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house..

Master :: Master (n.) The commander of a merchant vessel; -- usually called captain. Also, a commissioned officer in the navy ranking next above ensign and below lieutenant; formerly, an officer on a man-of-war who had immediate charge, under the commander, of sailing the vessel..

Jemidar :: "Jemidar (n.) The chief or leader of a hand or body of persons; esp., in the native army of India, an officer of a rank corresponding to that of lieutenant in the English army..

Susceptibilities :: Survivorship (n.) The right of a joint tenant, or other person who has a joint interest in an estate, to take the whole estate upon the death of other..

Farm :: Farm (a. & n.) Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner..

In-going :: In-going (a.) Going; entering, as upon an office or a possession; as, an in-going tenant..

Deputy :: Deputy (n.) One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc..

Kain :: Kain (n.) Poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to his landlord..

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