Cut out 'and the present tenancies of said premises.
The premises are to be conveyed free and clear of all incumbrances," Kent read aloud, "except the mortgage and covenant against nuisances above described and the present tenancies of said premises.
After discussing in their logical order other freehold interests in land, he passes to interests in land called by later writers interests less than freehold, namely, tenancies for terms of years and tenancies at will.
The amount of compensation could in no case exceed L250, and was limited to tenancies created after the passing of the Act.
In the case of tenancies not created by writing--tenancies from year to year--there was no power of eviction for non-payment of rent under the Common Law.
To meet this state of things the Civil Bill Court Act of 1851 extended the ejectment for non-payment of rent to tenanciesfrom year to year.
Roughly speaking, the Act changed Irish tenanciesfromtenancies at will practically to leaseholds, renewable every fifteen years, subject to revision of rent by the Land Courts.
But the special phenomenon of the growth of large customary tenancies which we have been considering can hardly be explained except as a result of enterprise among the tenants themselves.
In our own day the breaking up of large farms into smaller tenancies has proceeded furthest in those parts of the country which are most suitable for pasture.
Here the two types of demesne cultivation are seen merging into one another, with the result that the large farm is consolidated out of the small tenancies which preceded it.
But he might have to wait till leases or life tenancies had expired, instead of being able to clear his estate at one sweep.
At Cowpen[453] a similar concentration of land was going on at the end of the sixteenth century; first five tenancies were thrown into one, and then the whole manor passed into the hands of one large farmer.
These figures are at any rate not inconsistent with a considerable consolidation of tenancies and displacement of tenants, though we cannot say that they prove it.
Everywhere among the copyhold tenancies arable land predominates to an extent which is in marked contrast to the frequent preponderance of pasture land on many of the demesne farms.
In the reign of Elizabeth the distinction between the demesne and the customary tenancies still survived, and surveyors were at some pains to separate them in order to prevent the demesne being merged in the customary holdings.
For conversion of copyholds to tenancies at will, Selden Society, Select Cases in the Court of Requests, Kent and other inhabitants of Abbot's Ripton v.
Closely associated with tenancies from year to year are various other tenancies for shorter periods than a year--weekly, monthly or quarterly.
The principle of all tenancies of this kind is that something has been done by the party estopped, amounting to an admission which he cannot be allowed to contradict.
In uncertain tenancies there must be reasonable notice--i.
I have always thought the law of ejectment for non-payment of rent harsh; it is an innovation on the ancient Common Law; it sometimes causes forfeitures far from just; it is not properly applicable to tenancies of long duration.
It may be asserted, with some confidence, that through the operation of the new Irish land code, taking in tenancies of all kinds, Irish rents have been cut down nearly 40 per cent.
The ardour with which these tenancies were sought when vacant formed the best testimony to the soundness of the principle applied by Lord Harrowby.
It also discouraged him by tending to the extinction of small tenancies and freeholds that were no longer workable at a profit when common rights ceased to go with them.
The accounts of certain manors in Hertfordshire were headed, for thirty years after the Black Death, with a list of those who had vacated tenancies by death in that pestilence[273].
For the greater part of a century, in every part of Ireland, tenancies of land, whether held by Catholic or Protestant, by lease or at will, were alike in certain fundamental characteristics.
The lord's demesne acted as a centre, round which coloni clustered--cultivators who did not divide their tenancies because they did not own them.
The relation of free tenancies to the manorial system turns out to be a complex one.
The holders of the tenancies were free burgesses, and formed the sole body which elected the aldermen and mayor.
Now the number of conventional tenancies was always the same, but some of the old habitations on them were pulled down and the sites converted into gardens, and others were divided up and numerous houses erected on them.
In what case are they held to be tenancies from year to year?
Such estates, when no certain term is agreed on, are construed to be tenancies from year to year, and each party is bound to give reasonable notice of an intention to terminate the lease.
The usualtenancies are tenancies for years and tenancies from year to year.
This question is discussed more at length under the section, Tenancies from Year to Year.
Tenancies at will and at sufferance are estates in land.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tenancies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
