Tenement
Definition of Tenement
Ten´e`ment | n. | 1. | (Feud. Law) That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee. | | 2. | (Common Law) 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. | | 3. | 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. | | 4. | Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation. | | 5. | A tenement house. |
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