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ˈtenant-right
[f. tenant n. + right n.]
In general sense, The right that a person has as a tenant (of any kind). With special applications varying in time and place, as a. the right of a customary tenant: see quot. 1886; b. the right of a tenant at will or for a term of years to compensation for unexhausted improvements; c. the right of a tenant at will to sell his interest and goodwill to the incoming tenant. Ulster tenant-right: see quot. 1878.
1542Richmond Wills (Surtees) 27 Item I gyve and bewheth mye hole tityll and tenandright off my howse and farmehold.., aftere my decesse, unto Thomas Borowe. 1596Calr. Border Pap. II. 134 The said tenantes hould the seuerall landes and tenementes aforesaid by a custumary estate, which they call and claime to be, Tennant right. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 906 There is extant a Charter..which grants to the Earl of Holland, to possess as his own Free-hold, what before he enjoy'd but by a kind of Tenant-Right. a1734North Lives (1826) I. 289 In Cumberland the people had joined in.., pretending a tenant⁓right; which, there, is a customary estate, not unlike our copyholds. 1778Phil. Surv. S. Irel. 315 So it is with us, where the present occupier is supposed to have a tenant⁓right. 1851Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 519 The tenant right of the beneficiary or feudal vassals. 1868T. Hughes Sp. Ho. Com. in Morn. Star 13 Mar., Tenant right was really an immemorial custom prevailing in a great portion of Ireland, but unrecognised yet in courts of law, or statute books, under which the ordinary tenant at will has acquired the right of selling the succession to his holding. 1874Stubbs Const. Hist. (1875) I. iii. 52 The practice of careful husbandry demanded for the cultivator a tenant⁓right in his allotment. 1878Jevons Prim. Pol. Econ. x. 93 Tenant right, which consists in giving the tenant a right to claim the value of any unexhausted improvements, which he may have made in his farm, if he be turned out of it. Ibid., Tenant right..has existed for a long time in the north of Ireland, where it is called the Ulster tenant right. A new tenant there pays the old tenant a considerable sum of money for the privilege of getting a good farm with various improvements. 1880Ld. Dufferin in Times 4 Jan. (1881) 4/4 Under the Act of 1870, if the landlord buys up the tenant⁓right of a farm, it is declared to be extinguished for ever. 1886H. Hall Soc. Eliz. Age App. i. 154 The customary tenants enjoy [in 1583] the ancient custom called tenant-right: namely, ‘To have their messuages and tenements to them during their lives, and after their deceases to the eldest issues of their bodies lawfully begotten.
attrib.1713Act 12 Anne Stat. i. c. 2 §49 Copies of Admittances to Custom-Right, or Tenant-Right Estates, not being Copyhold, which pass by Deed, Surrender, and Admittance.
Hence ˈtenant-ˈrighter (colloq.), an advocate or supporter of tenant-right.
1865Morn. Star 13 Mar., Mr. Greer, you are aware, is a great tenant-righter, and in the palmy days of the League he occupied a prominent place in that body. 1886Pall Mall G. 4 Oct. 8/1 Recognized as a prominent representative of his class in the North and as a strong tenant-righter. |