Tenant-right, in England--(1) a custom ensuring to an out-going tenant compensation from his landlord for not being able to reap the full benefit of labour or improvements expended or made during the tenancy; or (2) the money due in pursuance of the custom. There is an implied contract by the landlord to pay this [Faviell v. Gaskoin, (1852) 7 Ex 273], and a custom throwing liability on the incoming tenant is bad [Bradburn v. Foley, (1878) 3 CPD 129] though as a matter of act and for convenience the incoming tenant generally pays the compensation by agreement with the landlord.
Also the name given to tenures in ancient demesne in the North of England.
See also CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY and AGRI-CULTURAL HOLDINGS; MARKET GARDEN.
In Ireland, also a custom either ensuring a permanence of tenure in the same occupant without liability to any other increase of rent than may be sanctioned by the general sentiment of the community; or entitling a tenant of a farm to receive purchase-money, amounting to so many year's rent, on its being transferred to another tenant. It has long prevailed in Ulster, 1 Mill's Pol. Econ. 385. See 33 & 34 Vict. c. 46 [The Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870], 44 & 45 Vict. c. 49 (The Land Law (Ireland) Acts, 1881, and 19 Geo. 5,c. 14 (The Northern Ireland Land Act, 1929.
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