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Holding :: Holding (n.) A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.

Feudary :: Feudary (a.) Held by, or pertaining to, feudal tenure..

Base :: Base (a.) Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant..

Vavasory :: Vavasory (n.) The quality or tenure of the fee held by a vavasor; also, the lands held by a vavasor..

Allodially :: Allodially (adv.) By allodial tenure.

Farm :: Farm (a. & n.) The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold.

Fee :: Fee (n.) An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure..

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

Cessavit :: Cessavit (n.) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.

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..

Hobbler :: Hobbler (n.) One who by his tenure was to maintain a horse for military service; a kind of light horseman in the Middle Ages who was mounted on a hobby.

Copy :: Copy (n.) Copyhold; tenure; lease.

Tenancy :: Tenancy (n.) A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another..

Tenure :: Tenure (n.) The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate..

Drengage :: Drengage (n.) The tenure by which a drench held land.

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..

Astrict :: Astrict (v. t.) To restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. See Astriction, 4..

Frank-fee :: Frank-fee (n.) A species of tenure in fee simple, being the opposite of ancient demesne, or copyhold..

Sergeanty :: Sergeanty (n.) Tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only..

Frankalmoigne :: Frankalmoigne (a.) A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; -- called also tenure by free alms..

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