TENURE • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Tenure

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/tˈɛnjər/ Listen

noun

Tenure n.

1.

The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate. "That the tenure of estates might rest on equity, the Indian title to lands was in all cases to be quieted."

2.

(Eng. Law) The manner of holding lands and tenements of a superior. Note: Tenure is inseparable from the idea of property in land, according to the theory of the English law; and this idea of tenure pervades, to a considerable extent, the law of real property in the United States, where the title to land is essentially allodial, and almost all lands are held in fee simple, not of a superior, but the whole right and title to the property being vested in the owner. Tenure, in general, then, is the particular manner of holding real estate, as by exclusive title or ownership, by fee simple, by fee tail, by courtesy, in dower, by copyhold, by lease, at will, etc.

3.

The consideration, condition, or service which the occupier of land gives to his lord or superior for the use of his land.

4.

Manner of holding, in general; as, in absolute governments, men hold their rights by a precarious tenure. "All that seems thine own, Held by the tenure of his will alone."

Tenure by fee alms. (Law) See Frankalmoigne.

See images of 'Tenure'

Etymology of 'Tenure'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Tenure" Quotes from Famous Books

... though somewhat professional; especially as there can be little doubt, that this diminutive republic must soon share the fate of mightier states; for, in consequence of the increase of commerce, lands possessed under this singular tenure, being now often brought to sale, and purchased by the neighbouring proprietors, will, in process of time, be included in their investitures, and the right of ...

— Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) • Walter Scott

... Dymock, the champion, was in Florence that winter, and was at the Pitti that night.—I dare say that there may be many now who do not know without being told, that Dymock, the last champion, as I am almost afraid I must call him—though doubtless Scrivelsby must still be held by the ancient tenure—was a very small old man, a clergyman, and not at all the sort of individual to answer to the popular idea of a champion. He was sitting in a nook all by himself, and not looking very heroic or very happy as we passed, and nudging my ...

— What I Remember, Volume 2 • Thomas Adolphus Trollope

... exist within. "I will not believe it; it were against all gratitude! all honor! all heart-truth! No, I will not believe it; and if I did, Hortensia, by all the Gods, I had rather live without love, than hold it on so vile a tenure of deceit. What, treasure up the secrets of your soul from your soul's lord? No! no! I would as soon conceal my devotion from the powers of heaven, as my affections from their rightful master. I, for one, never will believe that all ...

— The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2) • Henry William Herbert

... judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure on their offices, and the amount and payment ...

— History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6) • E. Benjamin Andrews

... case is little better than an impeachment. As for Mr. Johnson, he had held the weapon of the most relentless of the 'Parcae' so long that his suddenly clipping the thread of a foreign minister's tenure of office in a fit of jealous anger ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

Copyright © 2025 e-Free Translation.com