See also:

• TENURE (Fr. tenure, from Lat. tenere, to hold)

TENURE (Fr. tenure, from See also:

• LAT

Lat. tenere, to hold)  , in See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, the holding or See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession of See also:

• LAND

land . The holding of land in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England was originally either allodial or feudal . Allodial land was land held not of a See also:

• SUPERIOR

superior See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

lord, but of the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king and See also:

• PEOPLE

people . Such ownership was See also:

• ABSOLUTE (Lat. absolvere, to loose, set free)

absolute . It possibly took its origin from the view that the land was the possession of the See also:

• CLAN (Gaelic clann, O. Ir. cland, connected with Lat. planta, shoot or scion, the ancient Gaelic or Goidelic substituting k for p)

clan; that the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief was the See also:

• LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader but not the owner, and was no doubt strengthened by the temporary and partial occupation by the See also:

• ROMANS
• ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE

Romans . Their withdrawal, followed by the Saxon invasion, tended, without doubt, to re-establish the principle of See also:

• COMMON

common See also:

• VILLAGE

village ownership which formed the basis of both See also:

• CELTIC

Celtic and See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German See also:

• TENURE (Fr. tenure, from Lat. tenere, to hold)

tenure . In the later Saxon See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period, however, private ownership became gradually more extended . Then the feudal See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea began to make progress in England, much as it did about the same See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time on the See also:

• CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

continent of See also:

• EUROPE

Europe, and it received a See also:

• GREAT

great impetus from the See also:

• NORMAN
• NORMAN, SIR HENRY WYLIE (1826-1904)

Norman See also:

• CONQUEST

conquest . When See also:

• ENGLISH

English law began to See also:

• SETTLE
• SETTLE, ELKANAH (1648–1724)

settle down into a See also:

• SYSTEM

system, the principle of See also:

• FEUDALISM
• FEUDALISM (from Late Lat. feodum or feudum, a fee or fiel; see FEE)

feudalism was taken as the basis, and it gradually became the undisputed See also:

• MAXIM, SIR HIRAM STEVENS (184o- )

maxim of English law that the See also:

• SOVEREIGN

sovereign was the supreme lord of all the land and that every one held under him as See also:

• TENANT (from Lat. tenere, to hold)

tenant, that there was no such thing as an absolute private right of See also:

• PROPERTY

property in land, but that the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state alone as personified by the sovereign was vested with that right, and conceded to the individual possessor only a strictly defined subordinate right, subject to conditions from time to time enacted by the community (see also FEUDALISM) . Feudal tenure was divided into See also:

• FREE

free and non-free . Free tenures were frankalmoign, See also:

• KNIGHT, CHARLES (1791-1873)
• KNIGHT, DANIEL RIDGWAY (1845– )
• KNIGHT, JOHN BUXTON (1843–1908)

knight service, See also:

• SERJEANTY

serjeanty and free See also:

• SOCAGE

socage . These tenures are dealt with under their See also:

• SEPARATE

separate headings .

See also:

• BASE

Base or non-free tenure was tenure in See also:

• VILLENAGE (VILLAINAGE, VILLANAGE, VILLEINAGE)

villenage (q.v.) and See also:

• COPYHOLD

copyhold (q.v.), and see also See also:

• MANOR

MANOR .