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Tenant

A tenant (from the Latin tenere, to hold), in legal contexts, holds real property by some form of title from a landlord.

Various forms of tenancy exist, or have existed in the past. These include:

• socage
• tenancy for life
• tenancy for years
• tenancy from year to year

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

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