Do we say tenant or tenet

tenant 916 occurrences

The proprietor of a house, or house and land, agrees to let it either to a tenant-at-will, a yearly tenancy, or under lease.

A tenancy-at-will may be created by parol or by agreement; and as the tenant may be turned out when his landlord pleases, so he may leave when he himself thinks proper; but this kind of tenancy is extremely inconvenient to both parties.

Where an annual rent is attached to the tenancy, in construction of law, a lease or agreement without limitation to any certain period is a lease from year to year, and both landlord and tenant are entitled to notice before the tenancy can be determined by the other.

This tenancy at sufferance applies also to an under-tenant, who remains in possession and pays rent to the reversioner or head landlord.

It has been held that a general clause of this description prohibited a tenant from keeping a school, for which he had taken it, although a lunatic asylum and public-house have been found admissible; the keeping an asylum not being deemed a trade, which is defined as "conducted by buying and selling."

In a recent case, however, a tenant having held over beyond his term and not removed his fixtures, the landlord let the premises to a new tenant, who entered into possession, and would not allow the fixtures to be removedit was held by the courts, on trial, that he was justified.

In a recent case, however, a tenant having held over beyond his term and not removed his fixtures, the landlord let the premises to a new tenant, who entered into possession, and would not allow the fixtures to be removedit was held by the courts, on trial, that he was justified.

Distress is the remedy usually applied, the landlord being authorized to enter the premises, seize the goods and chattels of his tenant, and sell them, on the fifth day, to reimburse himself for all arrears of rent and the charges of the distress.

If a tenant cannot pay his rent, the sooner he leaves the premises the better.

In cases in which the tenant has not deserted the premises, and where notice to quit has been given and has expired, the landlord must give notice to the tenant of his intended application.

FOIRE, f., grand marché public, se tenant à des époques fixes.

Mothers of the South, portraiture of the White tenant farm woman.

Law of landlord and tenant, with forms.

Law of landlord and tenant, with forms.

Gibbon vs. tenant, by Emily Hahn.

New York law of landlord and tenant.

And, as purchasers of real estate were infrequent at Gooseville, it would be rented for forty dollars a year to any responsible tenant who would "keep it up.

It may be more exact to say that my farm was not exactly "abandoned," as its owner desired a tenant and paid the taxes; say rather depressed, full of evil from long neglect, suffering from lack of food and general debility.

The landlord of a farm let to a tenant, especially to a share tenant, is still to a large extent the general manager, controlling in a large measure through the renting contract and by his oversight, the operations of the farm.

The landlord of a farm let to a tenant, especially to a share tenant, is still to a large extent the general manager, controlling in a large measure through the renting contract and by his oversight, the operations of the farm.

Older men find that letting the farm to a share tenant is easier for them and gives better results than continuing to operate the farm with hired labor.

And it evidently gives a man a somewhat higher status to become a tenant than to continue to be a hired laborer.

" "Miss Puffle gone off, and with her father's tenant's son!"

Miss Puffle gone off with the tenant's son!

But this harum-scarum young tenant's son, who was in no respect a gentleman, whose only thought was of galloping over hedges and ditches, such an idea showed a state of mind whichwell, absolutely disgusted him.

tenet 104 occurrences

Unfortunately, Peter was too close to the negroes to hold such a tenet.

Then is it not substantiall knowledge (as it is in him) but verball, and fantasticall for Omnia in illa ille complexu tenet.

'Tis most true, tenet insanabile multos scribendi cacoethes, and "there is no end of writing of books," as the wiseman found of old, in this scribbling age, especially wherein "the number of books is without number," (as a worthy man saith,) "presses be oppressed," and out of an itching humour that every man hath to show himself, desirous of fame and honour (scribimus indocti doctique)

where you shall find this tenet copiously confuted.

" He is more than quarter-master with the gods, [4650] "Tenet Thetide aequor, umbras Aeaco, coelum Jove:" and hath not so much possession as dominion.

7. and Paracelsus, a great champion of this tenet amongst the rest, which give sundry peculiar instances, by many testimonies, proofs, and confessions evince it.

[4720] "Felices ter et amplius Quos irrupta tenet copula, nec ullis Divulsus querimoniis Suprema citius solvit amor die.

how long will it be ere Christians take the plain middle road between intolerance and indifference, by adopting the literal sense and Scriptural import of heresy, that is, wilful error, or belief originating in some perversion of the will; and of heretics, (for such there are, nay, even orthodox heretics), that is, men wilfully unconscious of their own wilfulness, in their limpet-like adhesion to a favourite tenet?" Ib.

Surely it is not presuming too much of a Clergyman of the Church of England to expect that he would measure the importance of a theological tenet by its bearings on our moral and spiritual duties, by its practical tendencies.

Forma animos hominum capit, at, si gratia desit, Non tenet; esca natat pulchra, sed hamus abest, Cogitat aut loquitur nil vir, nil cogitat uxor, Felici thalamo non, puto, rixa strepit.

Gratia nulla hominum mentes tenet, ista Promethei Munera muneribus, si retulere fabri.

Crethida fabellas dulces garrire peritam Prosequitur lacrymis filia moesta Sami: Blandam lanifici sociam sine fine loquacem, Quam tenet hic, cunctas quae manet, alta quies.

Margaret could not but marvel at the flourishing proportion attained by the hours in those sunlit spring days; and at dinner, say, her thoughts harking back to luncheon, recalled it by a vigorous effort as an affair of the dim yester-yearsa mere blurred memory, faint and vague as a Druidical tenet or a Merovingian squabble.

I will give an example, where the English language itself falls short of the nicety of the Qquichua in handling a metaphysical tenet.

When any tenet is generally received and adopted as an incontrovertible principle, we seldom look back to the arguments upon which it was first established, or can bear that tediousness of deduction, and multiplicity of evidence, by which its author was forced to reconcile it to prejudice, and fortify it in the weakness of novelty against obstinacy and envy.

Non, si priores Maeonius tenet Sedes Homerus, Pindaricae latent, Ceaeque, et

From boyhood Simpson had been practised in control, until repression had become a prime tenet of his faith.

This is not a modern paradox, or the tenet of a small and obscure sect, but a persuasion which appears to have operated upon most minds in all ages, and which is supported by authorities so numerous and so cogent, that nothing but long experience could have given me confidence to question its truth.

This flexibility of ignorance is easily accommodated to any tenet; his only difficulty is, when the disputants grow zealous, how to be of two contrary opinions at once.

Accordingly I entered into a thorough searching of the Scripture without bias, and was amazed to find how baseless was the tenet for which in fact I had endured a sort of martyrdom.

Nor could I hope for relief by searching through the Homilies or by drawing deductions from the Articles: for if I there elicited a truer doctrine, it would never show the Baptismal Service not to teach the Popish tenet; it would merely prove the Church-system to contain contradictions, and not to deserve that absolute declaration of its truth, which is demanded of Church ministers.

On the contrary, I had learned of an intermediate tenet, called Semi-Arianism, which appeared to me more scriptural than the views of either Athanasius or Arius.

This being fully discerned, I at last became bold to criticize the popular tenet.

This confirmed my rising conviction that the tenet is of rather recent origin.

That Christ had any higher nature than we all have, was a tenet essentially inadmissible; first, because it destroyed all moral benefit from his example and sympathy, and next, because no one has yet succeeded in even stating the doctrine of the Incarnation without contradicting himself.

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