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

Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement..

Resumption :: Resumption (n.) The taking again into the king's hands of such lands or tenements as he had granted to any man on false suggestions or other error.

Release :: Release (n.) A giving up or relinquishment of some right or claim; a conveyance of a man's right in lands or tenements to another who has some estate in possession; a quitclaim.

Admortization :: Admortization (n.) The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain.

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

Entry :: Entry (n.) The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them..

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.

Burgess :: Burgess (n.) An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough..

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

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..

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

Deforcement :: Deforcement (n.) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right..

Hereditament :: Hereditament (n.) Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir..

Commandery :: Commandery (n.) A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; -- called also a preceptory..

Socage :: Socage (n.) A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service, in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent..

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..

Undertenant :: Undertenant (n.) The tenant of a tenant; one who holds lands or tenements of a tenant or lessee.

Donee :: Donee (n.) Anciently, one to whom lands were given; in later use, one to whom lands and tenements are given in tail; in modern use, one on whom a power is conferred for execution; -- sometimes called the appointor..

Lease :: Lease (v. t.) To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; -- sometimes with out..

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