Home (Tenement)
Home  
 
 
Home » Law » Tenement


 

Tenement

Law TenderTenet

Tenement definition:
Property that could be subject to easements.
Appears to no longer have any use in land law or even in the common law except to describe the real properties which are connected by easement; ...

 


Tenement
1) A legal term for holding any land or permanent property with right to rent. 2) Any old building given for residential living through leases with several floors and apartments usually with bare minimum amenities
Legal-Explanations.com Home ...

Dominant Tenement at Legal Glossary What is it? Property that carries a right to use a portion of a neighboring property. For example, property that benefits from a beach access trail across another property is the dominant tenement.

Tenement
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.
Tenure ...

TENEMENT, estates. In its most extensive signification tenement comprehends every thing which may be holden, provided it be of a permanent nature; and not only lands and inheritances which are holden, ...

Franktenement. A freehold. See Feud.
Free. Not subject to restraint or control; having freedom of will; at liberty; also, that on which no charge is made. Compare with Frank. Liberated from control of a parent, guardian, or master; sui juris.

tenement
n. 1) a term found in older deeds or in boiler-plate deed languag...
tentative trust
n. a bank account deposited in the name of the depositor "in trus...

tenement
Related answers:
If there is an encroachment on property is there a time limit where they don't have to remove the wall that is an encroachment? Read answer...

Lands, tenements and hereditaments, may be forfeited by various means:
1. By the commission of crimes and misdemeanors.
2. By alienation contrary to law.
3. By the non-performance of conditions.
4. By waste.

servient tenement
Property that is subject to use by another for a specific purpose. For example, a beachfront house that has a public walkway to the beach on its premises would be a servient tenement.

Servient Tenement:
The land which suffers or has the burden of an easement. The beneficiary of the easement is called a dominant tenement.

Dominant tenement
Used when referring to easements to specify that property (i.e. tenement) or piece of land that benefits from, or has the advantage of, an easement.

For every easement, there is a dominant and a servient tenement. Easements are also classified as negative (which prevents the servient land owner from doing certain things) or affirmative easements (the most common, ...

For every easement, there is a dominant and a servient tenement, or piece of land . Rights-of-way are the most common easements, but others include the right to tunnel under another's land, to emit smoke or fumes, to access a dock and to use a well.

In the present day large numbers of copyhold tenements have been enfranchised, i.e. converted into freehold. The effect of this step is to sever all connexion between the land enfranchised and the manor of which it was previously held.

"Every person who enters any house, room, apartment, tenement, shop, warehouse, store, mill, barn, stable, outhouse or other building, tent, vessel ..., floating home ...

[translation of Anglo-French frank tenement freehold estate]
: a tenure of real property the duration of which cannot be determined and by which an estate in fee simple or fee tail or for life is held
also
: an estate held by such tenure ...

PARAMOUNT
That which is superior. 2. It is usually applied to the highest lord of the fee, of lands, tenements, or hereditaments. F.... more
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 next
LawGuru Forms ...

Deed - A conveyance of realty; a writing signed by grantor, whereby title to realty is transferred from one to another. A written instrument, signed and delivered, by which one person conveys land, tenements, or hereditaments to another.

See also: Law, Property, Term, Person, Will