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.
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.
Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.
A tenure; an interest in land which may be either "free" or "unfree" according to the services which the tenant is obliged to render in return for it. (Hogue, Arthur R. Origins of the Common Law, 258) Related terms: Tenure
in law, that which is held by tenure, the possessor of which is a tenant, hence lands, houses, etc., held of another for a term of years.
A tall building (the tallest recorded was some 14 storeys high - not bad for a building without lifts) which was constructed purely for housing. Each would house numerous families.
in property law, any form of permanent property, such as land, dwelling, shop etc.
In this context, a dwelling-house or habitation.
a rundown apartment house barely meeting minimal standards
a tangible attachment to the land, such as a barn, fence or building
A parcel of land usually including a dwelling house. Term later used for the house itself.
a house, flat, holding or piece of land.
a description of property, usually including a building; a messuage may be divided into two tenements
That which is held by tenure, the possessor of which is a tenant. Hence the lands, houses etc, leased from another person for a term of years.
A dwelling or habitation (or part of) occupied by one family
All rights in land that pass with a conveyance of the land.
Generally thought of as a low-rental apartment building whose facilities and maintenance barely meet minimum standards.
(1) A building or complex of buildings containing residential rental units. (2) A run-down, low-rental apartment or flat building or rooming house. (3) Real property held by a person under a right or authority conferred by an owner.
The land plus everything of a permanent nature that may be owned.
"Something which may be held; something ... subject to tenure." Dukelow
apartment within a building containing other apartments
Property that could be subject to tenure under English land law; usually land, buildings or apartments. The word is rarely used nowadays except to refer to dominant or servient tenements when qualifying easements. Popularly, it has come to mean a run-down piece of rental property.
A holding of land and buildings. 311.
Building with many apartments, most open onto an air shaft
multi storied building in Scotland
In law, possession that are permanent and fixed; structures attached to land or a building. Alternately, city apartment building that is over-crowded, poorly constructed or maintained, and generally part of a slum.
In terms of the Tenements (Scotland) Act, a tenement means any commercial, residential or mixed-use building where there are two or more "flats" in - or designed to be in - separate ownership and divided horizontally.
Tenements are four- to six-story residential dwellings, once common in New York and certain other cities, built on a tiny lot without regard to providing ventilation or light.
See also: Tenement (apartment building)
