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TENANT (from Lat. tenere, to hold)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 613 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TENANT (from See also:Lat. tenere, to hold)  , one who holds real See also:property by some See also:form of See also:title from a landlord . For the forms of tenancy, &c., see LANDLORD AND See also:TENANT . TENANT-RIGHT, in See also:law, a See also:term expressing the right which a tenant has, either by See also:custom or by law, against his landlord for See also:compensation for improvements at the determination of his tenancy . In See also:England it is governed for the most See also:part by the Agricultural Holdings Acts and the Allotments and Small Holdings Acts (see LANDLORD AND TENANT) . In See also:Ireland, tenant-right was a custom, prevailing particularly in See also:Ulster, by which the tenant acquired a right not to have his See also:rent raised arbitrarily at the expiration of his term . This resulted in Ulster in considerable fixity of See also:tenure and, in See also:case of a See also:desire on the part of the tenant to sell his See also:farm, made the tenant-right of considerable See also:capital value, amounting often to many years' rent .

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