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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..

Coshering :: Coshering (n.) A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant's house.

Verge :: Verge (n.) The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, they holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge..

Haybote :: Haybote (n.) An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote.

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

Incoming :: Incoming (a.) Coming in, succeeding, or following, as occupant or possessor; as, in incoming tenant..

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

Ploughbote :: Ploughbote (n.) Wood or timber allowed to a tenant for the repair of instruments of husbandry. See Bote.

Rep-silver :: Rep-silver (n.) Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain..

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.

Colonel :: Colonel (n.) The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general.

Holder :: Holder (n.) One who holds land, etc., under another; a tenant..

Lease :: Lease (v. t.) To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his land from the owner..

Appurtenant :: Appurtenant (a.) Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings..

Sorehon :: Sorehon (n.) Formerly, in Ireland, a kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously whenever he wished to indulge in a revel..

Homestead :: Homestead (n.) The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family..

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

Vavasor :: Vavasor (n.) The vassal or tenant of a baron; one who held under a baron, and who also had tenants under him; one in dignity next to a baron; a title of dignity next to a baron..

Underletter :: Underletter (n.) A tenant or lessee who grants a lease to another.

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