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 This commission superseded the former commission of array, which provided the same powers.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.