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Latin: In the civil law. A plea of time; a plea of lapse of time, in bar of an action. Corresponding to the plea of prescription, or the statute of limitations, in our law. See Mackeld … [Read more...] about TEMPORIS EXCEPTIO

English law. The tenant of a tenant; and is so called because he has the avails or profits of the land. … [Read more...] about TENANT PARAVAIL

Lat. In the civil and old English law. Time In general. A time limited; a season; e. p., tempus pessonis, mast time in the forest. Tempns continuum. In the civil law. A continuous or absolute period of time. A term which begins to run from a certain event, even though he for whom it runs has no knowledge of the event, and in which, when it has once begun to run, all the days … [Read more...] about TEMPTUS

Eng. law. In leases from the crown, corporations or the church, it is usual to grant a further term to the old tenants in preference to strangers, and, as this expectation is seldom disappointed, such tenants are considered as baying an ulterior interest beyond their subsisting term; and this interest is called the tenant right. … [Read more...] about TENANT RIGHT

A right to occupy or otherwise use real property for a term. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition is the relation of a tenant to the land which he holds. Hence it signifies (1) the estate of a tenant, as in the expressions "Joint tenancy," "tenancy in common;"(2)the term or interest of a tenant for years or at will, as when we say that a lessee must remove his fixtures … [Read more...] about TENANCY