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Disgavel :: Disgavel (v. t.) To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of lands.

Renter :: Renter (n.) One who rents or leases an estate; -- usually said of a lessee or tenant.

Escheat :: Escheat (n.) The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder..

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..

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

Undertenancy :: Undertenancy (n.) Tenancy or tenure under a tenant or lessee; the tenure of an undertenant.

Tenant :: Tenant (n.) One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2..

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

Avercorn :: Avercorn (n.) A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers..

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..

Appurtenant :: Appurtenant (n.) Something which belongs or appertains to another thing; an appurtenance.

Copyhold :: Copyhold (n.) A tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for which the tenant has nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lord's court..

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..

Fealty :: Fealty (n.) Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation..

Tenant Saw :: Tenant saw () See Tenon saw, under Tenon..

Socome :: Socome (n.) A custom of tenants to grind corn at the lord's mill.

Cesser :: Cesser (v. i.) a neglect of a tenant to perform services, or make payment, for two years..

Steeler :: Steelbow goods () Those goods on a farm, such as corn, cattle, implements husbandry, etc., which may not be carried off by a removing tenant, as being the property of the landlord..

Mesne :: Mesne (a.) Middle; intervening; as, a mesne lord, that is, a lord who holds land of a superior, but grants a part of it to another person, in which case he is a tenant to the superior, but lord or superior to the second grantee, and hence is called the mesne lord..

Lieutenant :: Lieutenant (n.) A commissioned officer in the army, next below a captain..

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