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Reversioner :: Reversioner (n.) One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated..

Lease :: Lease (v. t.) A demise or letting of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another for life, for a term of years, or at will, or for any less interest than that which the lessor has in the property, usually for a specified rent or compensation..

Tenement :: Tenement (n.) Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.

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..

Fixture :: Fixture (n.) Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person annexing them, or his personal representatives. In this latter sense, the same things may be fixtures under some circumstances, and not fixtures under others..

Reseize :: Reseize (v. t.) To take possession of, as lands and tenements which have been disseized..

Subtended :: Subtenant (n.) One who rents a tenement, or land, etc., of one who is also a tenant; an undertenant..

Livery :: Livery (n.) The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements.

Use :: Use (v. t.) The benefit or profit of lands and tenements. Use imports a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the holding of lands. He to whose use or benefit the trust is intended shall enjoy the profits. An estate is granted and limited to A for the use of B.

Tenement :: Tenement (n.) Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free / frank tenements..

Tenement :: Tenement (n.) That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.

Mortmain :: Mortmain (n.) Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate..

Issue :: Issue (n.) Produce of the earth, or profits of land, tenements, or other property; as, A conveyed to B all his right for a term of years, with all the issues, rents, and profits..

Temporality :: Temporality (n.) That which pertains to temporal welfare; material interests; especially, the revenue of an ecclesiastic proceeding from lands, tenements, or lay fees, tithes, and the like; -- chiefly used in the plural..

Rent :: Rent (n.) A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc..

Tenementary :: Tenementary (a.) Capable of being leased; held by tenants.

Cognizance :: Cognizance (n.) An acknowledgment of a fine of lands and tenements or confession of a thing done.

Tenemental :: Tenemental (a.) Of or pertaining to a tenement; capable of being held by tenants.

Tenure :: Tenure (n.) The manner of holding lands and tenements of a superior.

Tenement :: Tenement (n.) A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented..

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