¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tenures
1. tenure [v] - See also: tenure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenures
Literary usage of Tenures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I. by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1895)
"classifies- Little more could at this moment be said of tenure in tenures,
general—an abstraction of a very high order. Efforts however have been made to ..."
2. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, George Franklin Comstock (1866)
"By the statute of New York, of the 20th February, 1787, (a) entitled An Act
concerning tenures, the legislature re-enacted the statute of 12 Car. II. c. ..."
3. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1832)
"Of the history of feudal tenures in England. England was distinguished above
every part of ... Spelman wrote his great work on Feuds and tenures by Knight ..."
4. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, John Melville Gould, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1901)
"Of the History of Feudal tenures in England. ... Spelman wrote his great work on
Feuds and tenures by Knight Service to refute the argument of the Irish ..."
5. A Statistical Account of Bengal by William Wilson Hunter (1877)
"tenures of the Chu- tii Nagpur estate, 362-389 ; the estate as a tenure held
direct from Government,362-364; tenures held by Rajas dependent on the estate, ..."
6. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1893)
"The historical importance of the 'tenures' was early appreciated by the ...
From the omission of certain minor tenures and all reference to oases of a later ..."
7. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1876)
"And they are none the less a witness to the fact iat the military tenures had
been fully established and wrought ito a systematic shape before the accession ..."
Other Resources:
