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The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease. Blackstone.

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  • TENANT
    One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title
  • RESIDENTIAL
    1. Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade. 2. Residing; residentiary.
  • RESIDENTIARYSHIP
    The office or condition of a residentiary.
  • OCCUPANT
    1. One who occupies, or takes possession; one who has the actual use or possession, or is in possession, of a thing. Note: This word, in law, sometimes signifies one who takes the first possession of a thing that has no owner. 2. A prostitute.
  • TENANTLESS
    Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion. Shak.
  • TENANT SAW
    See TENON
  • RESIDENTSHIP
    The office or condition of a resident.
  • OCCUPIER
    1. One who occupies, or has possession. 2. One who follows an employment; hence, a tradesman. "Merchants and occupiers." Holland. The occupiers of thy merchandise. Ezek. xxvii. 27.
  • RESIDENT
    1. Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; -- opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country. 2. Fixed; stable; certain. "Stable and resident like a rock." Jer.
  • RESIDENTER
    A resident.
  • RESIDENTIARY
    Having residence; as, a canon residentary; a residentiary guardian. Dr. H. More.
  • TENANTRY
    1. The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom. 2. Tenancy. Ridley.
  • LESSEE
    The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease. Blackstone.
  • TENANTABLE
    Fit to be rented; in a condition suitable for a tenant. -- Ten"ant*a*ble*ness, n.
  • DWELLER
    An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller. "Dwellers at Jerusalem." Acts i. 19.
  • TER-TENANT
    See TERRE-TENANT
  • PRESIDENT
    Precedent. Bacon.
  • SUBLIEUTENANT
    An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank.
  • RELESSEE
    See RELEASEE
  • TERRE-TENANT
    One who has the actual possession of land; the occupant.
  • UNDERTENANT
    The tenant of a tenant; one who holds lands or tenements of a tenant or lessee.
  • LIEUTENANT
    of tenir to hold, L. tenere. See Lieu, and Tenant, and cf. Locum 1. An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty. The lawful magistrate, who is the
  • INDWELLER
    An inhabitant. Spenser.
  • LIEUTENANT GENERAL
    . An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general. Note: In the United States, before the civil war, this rank had been conferred only on George Washington and on Winfield Scott. In 1864 it was revived by Congress and
  • LIEUTENANTRY
    See LIEUTENANCY
  • COTENANT
    A tenant in common, or a joint tenant.

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