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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tenancy
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
assured
▪ Retirement Assured, which lets sheltered apartments to the elderly on assured tenancies, takes account of tenants when valuing its properties.
▪ Several recent assured tenancy issues featured non-recourse loans from banks to shareholders.
▪ Only landlords approved by the Secretary of State can let on assured tenancies.
▪ Short- hold and assured tenancies aimed at enticing owners to let empty homes are looked on with suspicion and disdain.
furnished
▪ This can best be understood by reverting to our previous example concerning a furnished tenancy.
▪ If a furnished tenancy exists the tribunal may adjudicate on the rent.
▪ The Albert Hall is deemed to be a furnished tenancy and a rent set for it.
▪ The words furnished tenancy would be empty vessels into which anything could be poured.
▪ Let us revert to the example used before of a tribunal having power to decide whether a furnished tenancy exists.
▪ The letter f is simply a shorthand for indicating that a furnished tenancy will be determined by the elements within the bracket.
joint
▪ It concerns the severance of a beneficial joint tenancy.
▪ Hence in the present case Mr. Dennis had not been divested of his interest under the joint tenancy when his wife died.
▪ When she died the joint tenancy still subsisted.
▪ The question which has arisen is whether in these circumstances the beneficial joint tenancy was severed before Mrs. Dennis' death.
▪ A joint tenancy is severed if a joint tenant disposes of his interest inter vivos.
▪ On the face of it, the absence of joint obligations of payment was inconsistent with the existence of a joint tenancy.
▪ The husband and wife may agree that the joint tenancy should be severed but if so they should properly evidence that fact.
▪ It follows that there was no joint tenancy.
new
▪ A business tenant is entitled to a new contractual tenancy for a fixed term up to 14 years.
▪ If a new tenancy is not possible compensation will be available.
▪ After the service of the notice the tenant is entitled to apply to the court for a new tenancy.
▪ Legislation on this subject is likely to change for all new tenancies under the 1989 Housing Act.
▪ This is so even if the landlord is otherwise unwilling to grant a new tenancy.
▪ Equally, the court can not normally order the grant of a new tenancy of more than the holding.
▪ This would entitle the tenant to have a new tenancy at the then prevailing market rent.
■ NOUN
agreement
▪ In the present case, when this tenancy agreement took effect the term was completely uncertain.
▪ Before starting to buy a house or flat or signing a private tenancy agreement you are advised to consult a solicitor.
▪ Agricultural land, for example, may be subject to a tenancy agreement or grass keep.
▪ How much notice is required on either side to terminate the tenancy agreement? 11.
▪ Such tenancy agreements may be redefined under the 1989 Housing Act.
▪ In contrast, under a joint tenancy agreement, ownership automatically passes to the survivor.
▪ Although your tenancy agreement may be with the agent many courts are making landlords pick up the debt.
■ VERB
grant
▪ Accordingly, it may at first sight seem advantageous to a landlord to grant such a tenancy.
▪ This is so even if the landlord is otherwise unwilling to grant a new tenancy.
▪ They have been granted the tenancy of a 71-acre county council holding at Underbank, Gawsworth, near Macclesfield.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After a five-year tenancy, we were ready to move out.
▪ Property held in joint tenancy automatically passes to the surviving spouse after the death of the other.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A business tenant is entitled to a new contractual tenancy for a fixed term up to 14 years.
▪ If the rent is payable monthly it is usually best that the tenancy should begin on the first of the month.
▪ It concerns the severance of a beneficial joint tenancy.
▪ Large numbers were forced into tenancy or became agricultural labourers.
▪ The building was owned by Orkney Islands Council, but there seemed to be no difficulty in securing a temporary tenancy.
▪ This means that they will have different tenancy rights and possibly higher rents.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tenancy

Tenancy \Ten"an*cy\, n.; pl. Tenacies. [Cf. OF. tenace, LL. tenentia. See Tenant.] (Law)

  1. A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another.

  2. (O. Eng. Law) A house for habitation, or place to live in, held of another.
    --Blount. Blackstone. Wharton.

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Wiktionary
tenancy

n. 1 The occupancy of property etc, under a lease, or by paying rent. 2 The period of occupancy by a tenant. 3 The property occupied by a tenant.

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WordNet
tenancy

n. an act of being a tenant or occupant [syn: occupancy]

Wikipedia
Tenancy (law)

A Tenancy in the English legal system is a space for a barrister in a set of chambers.

Usage examples of "tenancy".

When a corporation enjoys a tenancy for a stated term only, there is always a danger that it will seek temporarily larger profits by economizing on the quality of its service.

Her tenancy was only of the unassured variety, and she did not even feel she could blame the other tenants for kicking up a fuss.

Jack Singleton and myself to take the house for the month between mid-May and mid-June, but as I have already mentioned a short three weeks was all the time we passed there, and we had more than a week of our tenancy yet unexpired when we left the place, though on the very last afternoon we enjoyed the finest dry-fly fishing that has ever fallen to my lot.

But speaking generally, let me say this: Without concrete proof of an actual act of decession, it will take substantial time to establish the validity of the heir’s tenancy and rights and subsequent transfer of ownership of those rights and the concomitant property.

Some of the words I defined for my readers were: common stock, preferred stock, bonds, municipal bonds, debentures, margin, selling short, puts and calls, living trust, joint tenancy, tenants in common, float, load, points, deficiency judgement, call money, prime rate, gold standard, flat money, easement, fee simple, eminent domain, public domain, copyright, patent, etc.

The fact that a blessed saint had joint tenancy of my body didn't much affect pain, scared, fallible me.

Since then, the two of them had lived an uneasy joint tenancy, two sets of memories, two sets of opinions on everything, all in one head, and it would have been interesting to see what Barish was like, just as himself.

The vultures and the sand-grouse held it undisturbed in a perpetual tenancy.

Quick tenancies for fly-by-night businesses had left blocked-up windows and boarded doors.

And when those tenancies began to pay rents, when there were sawmills and gristmills on the streams, when there were settlements and stores and taverns, when the handful of cows and pigs and horses had multiplied into fat herds of thriving stock under Jamie's careful stewardship .