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Underlease :: Underlease (n.) A lease granted by a tenant or lessee; especially, a lease granted by one who is himself a lessee for years, for any fewer or less number of years than he himself holds; a sublease..

Tenantry :: Tenantry (n.) Tenancy.

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

Average :: Average (n.) That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc..

Occupation :: Occupation (n.) The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant..

Tolsester :: Tolsester (n.) A toll or tribute of a sextary of ale, paid to the lords of some manors by their tenants, for liberty to brew and sell ale..

Ejectment :: Ejectment (n.) A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of tenants from their homes..

Attorn :: Attorn (v. t.) To agree to become tenant to one to whom reversion has been granted.

Thirlage :: Thirlage (n.) The right which the owner of a mill possesses, by contract or law, to compel the tenants of a certain district, or of his sucken, to bring all their grain to his mill for grinding..

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

Villain :: Villain (n.) One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant..

Lieutenancy :: Lieutenancy (n.) The office, rank, or commission, of a lieutenant..

Terrier :: Terrier (n.) Formerly, a collection of acknowledgments of the vassals or tenants of a lordship, containing the rents and services they owed to the lord, and the like..

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

Castle-guard :: Castle-guard (n.) A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time..

Cotenant :: Cotenant (n.) A tenant in common, or a joint tenant..

Tenant :: Tenant (n.) One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.

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..

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..

Capite :: Capite (n.) See under Tenant.

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