Tenant
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A tenant (from the Latin tenere, to hold), in legal contexts, holds real property by some form of title from a landlord.
Various forms of tenancy exist, or have existed in the past. These include:
- socage
- tenancy for life
- tenancy for years
- tenancy from year to year
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopędia Britannica.
