Tenement
Ten´e`ment
| n. | 1. | (Feud. Law) That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee. |
| 2. | (Common Law) Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; - called also free tenements or frank tenements. |
| 3. | A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented. |
| 4. | Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation. |
| 5. | A tenement house. |
TENEMENT, estates. In its most extensive signification tenement comprehends
every thing which may be holden, provided it be of a permanent nature; and
not only lands and inheritances which are holden, but also rents and profits
a prendre of which a man has any frank tenement, and of which he may be
seised ut de libero tenemento, are included under this term. Co. Litt. 6 a;
1 Tho. Co. Litt. 219; Pork. s. 114; 2 Bl. Com. 17. But the word tenements
simply, without other circumstances, has never been construed to pass a fee.
10 Wheat. 204. In its more confined and vulgar acceptation, it means a house
or building. Ibid. an 1 Prest. on Est. 8. Vide 4 Bing. 293; S C. l1 Eng. C.
L. Rep. 207; 1 T. R. 358; 3 T. R. 772; 3 East, R. 113; 5 East, R. 239;
Burn's Just. Poor, 525 to 541; 1 B. & Adolph. 161; S. C. 20 Eng. C. L. Rep.
36 8; Com. Dig. Grant, E 2; Trespass, A 2; Wood's Inst. 120; Babington on
Auctions, 211, 212.
Augean stables,
acres,
apartment,
apartment house,
chambers,
chattels real,
cold-water flat,
condominium,
cooperative apartment house,
demesne,
domain,
dump,
duplex,
duplex apartment,
duplex house,
flat,
flats,
garden apartment,
grounds,
high-rise apartment building,
hole,
honor,
hovel,
land,
landed property,
lands,
lodgings,
lot,
lots,
manor,
messuage,
parcel,
penthouse,
pesthole,
pigpen,
pigsty,
plague spot,
plat,
plot,
praedium,
property,
quadrat,
railroad flat,
real estate,
real property,
realty,
rental,
rookery,
rooms,
set of rooms,
slum,
stable,
sty,
suite,
tenements,
the slums,
toft,
warren