tenant-rightn.

Etymology: < tenant n. + right n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtenant-right.

In general sense, The right that a person has as a tenant (of any kind). With special applications varying in time and place: (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. 1878².

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [noun] > right as tenant

tenant-right1542

1542 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 27 Item I gyve and bewheth mye hole tityll and tenandright off my howse and farmehold.., aftere my decesse, unto Thomas Borowe.

1596 Calr. 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.

1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 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.

a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) I. 289 In Cumberland the people had joined in.., pretending a tenant~right; which, there, is a customary estate, not unlike our copyholds.

1777 T. Campbell Philos. Surv. S. Ireland xxxii. 315 So it is with us, where the present occupier is supposed to have a tenant-right.

1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. 519 The tenant right of the beneficiary or feudal vassals.

1868 T. Hughes Speech House of Commons in Morning 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.

1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (1875) I. iii. 52 The practice of careful husbandry demanded for the cultivator a tenant~right in his allotment.

1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. 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.

1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. Econ. x. 93 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.

1880 Ld. 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.

1886 H. Hall Society in Elizabethan Age 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.’

attributive.1713 Act 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.

Derivatives

ˈtenant-ˈrighter n. colloquial an advocate or supporter of tenant-right.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social attitudes > [noun] > integration or egalitarianism > adherent of > specific

tenant-righter1865

1865 Morning 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.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Oct. 8/1 Recognized as a prominent representative of his class in the North and as a strong tenant-righter.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	tenant-right
释义	tenant-rightn. Etymology: < tenant n. + right n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtenant-right. In general sense, The right that a person has as a tenant (of any kind). With special applications varying in time and place: (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. 1878². ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [noun] > right as tenant tenant-right1542 1542 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 27 Item I gyve and bewheth mye hole tityll and tenandright off my howse and farmehold.., aftere my decesse, unto Thomas Borowe. 1596 Calr. 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. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 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. a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) I. 289 In Cumberland the people had joined in.., pretending a tenant~right; which, there, is a customary estate, not unlike our copyholds. 1777 T. Campbell Philos. Surv. S. Ireland xxxii. 315 So it is with us, where the present occupier is supposed to have a tenant-right. 1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. 519 The tenant right of the beneficiary or feudal vassals. 1868 T. Hughes Speech House of Commons in Morning 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. 1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (1875) I. iii. 52 The practice of careful husbandry demanded for the cultivator a tenant~right in his allotment. 1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. 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. 1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. Econ. x. 93 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. 1880 Ld. 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. 1886 H. Hall Society in Elizabethan Age 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.’ attributive.1713 Act 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. Derivatives ˈtenant-ˈrighter n. colloquial an advocate or supporter of tenant-right. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > [noun] > integration or egalitarianism > adherent of > specific tenant-righter1865 1865 Morning 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. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Oct. 8/1 Recognized as a prominent representative of his class in the North and as a strong tenant-righter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1542
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