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Home Dictionary Name: tenementDominant tenement
Dominant tenement, a term used in the civil law, and thence in ours, and also in Scots law relating to servitude. It means the tenement or subject in favour of which the service or easement is constituted; as the tenement over which the servitude or easement extends is called the 'servient tenement.' See Bell's Dict.; Smith's Dict. of Antiq., tit. 'Servitidues '; and Gale or goddard on Easements...
Tenement
Tenement [fr. teneo, Lat., to hold], in its vulgar acceptation, is only applied to houses and other buildings, but in its original, proper, and legal sense, it signifies everything that may be holden, provided it be of a permanent nature, whether it be of a substantial and sensible, or of an unsubstantial, ideal kind. Thus liberum tenementum, frank tenement, or freehold, is applicable not only to lands and other solid objects, but also to offices, rents, commons, advowsons, franchises, peerages, etc, 2 Bl. Com. 16. 'Tenement' may denote the estate is as well as the land. Halsb. L.E., tit. 'Real Property.'Local authorities sometimes refer to separately rated parts of houses or flats s tenements.1. Properly (esp. land) held by freehold; an estate or holding of land 2. A house or other building used as a residence, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Means the property especially land, held by free-hold, an estate or holding of land, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 14801. Properly (esp. ...
Conventionary tenements
Conventionary tenements, there were in Cornwall 17 assessionable manors originally belonging to the Duchy of Cornwall. In those manors certain tenements (known as 'Conventionary tenements') were held by way of leases which were perpetually renewable every seventh year at the Assesion Court, Rowe v. Brenton, (1828) 8 B&C 737....
Servient tenement
Servient tenement, the land over which an easement is exercised, as the dominant tenement is that to which the easement is attached. See EASEMENT. Consult Goddard on Easements....
tenement
tenement [Anglo-French, from Old French, from Medieval Latin tenementum, from Latin tenēre to hold] 1 a : any of various forms of property (as land) that is held by one person from another b : an estate in property 2 : dwelling ...
Frank-tenement
Frank-tenement [liberum tenementum, Lat.], a freehold estate....
Easement
Easement, An easement is a right which the owner or occupier of certain land possesses, a such, for the beneficial enjoyment of that land, to do and continue to do something, or to prevent and continue to prevent something being done, in or upon, or in respect of, certain other land not his own. [Easement Act, 1882 (5 of 1882), s. 4]Easement, a privilege without profit which the owner of one neighbouring tenement hath of another, existing in respect of their several tenements, by which the owner of the one (called the servient) tenement is obliged to suffer, or not to do something on his own land, for the advantage of the owner of the other (called the dominant) tenement, e.g., a right of way, a right of passage of water. It is the servitus of the Civil Law. An easement being a mere right without profit must be distinguished from a profit a prendre (q.v.), which confers a right to take something from the servient tenement. Instances of easements are rights of way, light, support, or fl...
Short-ford
Short-ford. The ancient custom of the city of Exeter is, when the lord of the fee cannot be answered rent due to him out of his tenement, and no distress can be levied for the same, he is to come to the tenement, and there take a stone, or some other dead thing of the said tenement, and bring it before the mayor and bailiffs; and this he must do seven quarter-days successively; and if, on the seventh quarter-day, the lord is not satisfied his rent and arrears then the tenement shall be adjudged to the lord to hold the same a year and a day; and forthwith proclamation is to be made in the Court, that if any man claim any title to the tenement, he must appear within the year and a day next following, and satisfy the lord of the said rent and arrears. But if no appearance be made, and the rent not paid, the lord comes again to the Court and prays that according to the custom the tenement be adjudged to him in his demesne as of fee, which is done, and the lord from thenceforth has it to hi...
Burgage-tenure
Burgage-tenure. Tenure in burgage is, where an ancient burrough is, of which the King is lord, and they, that have tenements within the burrough, hold of the King their tenements; that every tenant for his tenement ought to pay to the King a certaine rent by yeare etc. And such tenure is but tenure is socage, Co. Litt. 108 b. And the same manner is, where another lord spirituall or temporall is lord of such a burrough, and the tenants of the tenements in such a burrough hold of their lord to pay, each of them yearly, an annual rent, Ibid. 109 a. It was a freehold tenure and may still give a right of vote, see (English) Representation of the People Act,1918 (7 & 8 Geo. 5, c. 64), s. 17(2). The tenure of Borough English (q.v.) is sometimes connected with burgage tenure. See also schedule 12(1)(d) of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1922, as amended....
Electoral franchise
Electoral franchise. (1) The qualifications entitling persons to vote at Parliamentary elections. A brief sketch of the changes up to 1884 in (a) Counties, and (b) Boroughs is as follows:(a) Originally the freeholders elected the members for the county: later, residence was made an additional qualification. In the fifteenth century the qualification was limited to resident freeholders of lands or tenements to the value of 40s. by the year (8 Hen. 6, c. 7). Towards the end of the eighteenth century the residence qualification was abolished. The (English) Reform Act, 1832, extended the franchise to 10l. copyholders and to leaseholders for terms of years, and tenants at will paying a minimum of 50l. yearly rent (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 45, ss. 19 and 20). The (English) Representation of the People Act, 1867, extended the franchise to every duly registered man of full age who was-(i) the owner of lands or tenements, of whatever tenure, for his own life, for the life of another or for any lives wha...
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