Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Cotenancy

A tenancy with two or more coowners who have unity of possession. Examples are a joint tenancy and a tenancy in common.

Lieutenancy

The rank, office, or commission of a lieutenant. See COMMISSION OF LIEUTENANCY.

Subtenancy

See SUBLEASE.

Tenancy

1 The possession or occupancy of land by right or title, esp. under a lease; a leasehold interest in real estate. 2. The period of such possession or occupancy. See ESTATE.

at-will tenancy

See tenancy at will.

commission of lieutenancy

Hist. A commission issued to send officers into every county to establish military order over the inhabitants. This commission superseded the former commission of array, which provided the same powers. The commissions became obsolete with the establishment of the militia system.

common tenancy

See tenancy in common.

entire tenancy

A tenancy possessed by one person, as opposed to a joint or common tenancy. See tenancy by the entirety.

entirety, tenancy by the

See tenancy by the entirety under TENANCY.

general tenancy

See TENANCY.

holdover tenancy.

See tenancy at sufferance under TENANCY.

joint tenancy

See TENANCY.

life tenancy

See life estate under ESTATE.

month-to-month tenancy

See periodic tenancy under TENANCY.

periodic tenancy

A tenancy that automatically continues for successive periods - usu. month to month or year to year - unless terminated at the end of a period by notice. ( A typical example is a month-to-month apartment lease. This type of tenancy originated through court rulings that, when the lessor received a periodic rent, the lease could not be terminated without reasonable notice. -Also termed tenancy from period to period; periodic estate; estate from period to period; (more specif.) month-to-month tenancy (or estate); year-to-year tenancy (or estate).

several tenancy

A tenancy that is separate and not held jointly with gLnother person.

several tenancy.

See TENANCY,

tenancy at sufferance

See TENANCY.

tenancy at will

A tenancy in which the tenant holds possession with the landlord's consent but without fixed terms (as for duration or rent). ( Such a tenancy may be terminated by either party upon fair notice. - Also termed at-will tenancy; estate at will.

tenancy attendant on the inheritance

See TENANCY.

tenancy by the entirety

See TENANCY.

tenancy by the rod

See COPYHOLD.

tenancy by the verge

See COPYHOLD.

tenancy for a period

See tenancy for a term under TENANCY.

tenancy for a term

A tenancy whose duration is known in years, weeks, or days from the moment of its creation. - Also termed tenancy for a period; tenancy for years; term for years; term of years; estate for a term; estate for years; lease for years.

tenancy for years

See tenancy for a term under TENANCY.

tenancy from period to period

See periodic tenancy.

tenancy in common

A tenancy by two or more persons, in equal or unequal undivided shares, each person having an equal right to possess the whole property but no right of survivorship. - Also termed common tenancy; estate in common. Cf. joint tenancy. "The central characteristic of a tenancy in common is simply that each tenant is deemed to own by himself, with most of the attributes of independent ownership, a physically undivided part of the entire parcel." Thomas F. Bergin & Paul G. Haskell, Preface to Estates in land anal Future Interests 54 (2d ed. 1984).

tenancy in coparcenary

See COPARCENARY,

tenancy in gross

See TENANCY.

tenancy in tail

See FEE TAIL.

tenancy in tail.

See FEE TAIL.

tenancy par la verge

See COPYHOLD.

year-to-year tenancy

See periodic tenancy.