Since then he has once more occupied the position of Minister for Foreign Affairs and also that of Premier, but the tenure of his office on both occasions was short, and his official career not particularly brilliant.
In the early part of the Tokugawa regime, the tenure was confiscated in case of default of male heir to a deceased lord, though later on the system of adoption came to the rescue and an adopted heir was allowed to succeed.
This was the duty they had to render in return for the tenure of land.
The tenure of the lords was not looked upon in the light of private property in its strict sense.
In cases of great danger the Senate called upon the Consuls to appoint a Dictator, who should possess supreme power, but whose tenure of office could never exceed six months.
They formed a collegium, but their tenure of office is not known.
Their tenure of office was for life, and they were responsible to no one in the discharge of their duties.
The tenureof office was usually a year, but it was frequently prolonged.
In the first place, the tenure of land was--and is still--entirely different from anything that can be found in our own country.
He hoped to make his tenure permanent by imposing an aristocratic and centralising constitution providing for a life president.
The mean pay of the officers, their uncertaintenure of office, and the nature of their duties, would only attract candidates for employment as a temporary expedient.
The conclusion which we reach from this examination of the words buy and bought as applied to the case of Abraham is, that the use of the word determines nothing in regard to the tenure by which his servants were held.
A reference to a few cases where this word is used, will show that nothing is determined by it respecting the tenure by which the thing purchased was held.
But still, this use of the word in itself determines nothing in regard to the tenure by which they were held, or the nature of the servitude to which they were subjected.
But it may be broken in various ways; it may be broken by writing books persuading others that it is no crime, that it is even praiseworthy, by any other course of conduct, to weaken the tenure of the proprietor in the property named.
John Marshall's career and achievements are too well known to be recounted here; suffice it to say that in his lengthy tenureas its Chief Justice he gave plan, directive and purpose to the Supreme Court of the United States.
His tenure of that office does not seem to have been marked by any very noteworthy incidents.
Lord Dorchester's tenure of office tended to still further endear him to the Canadian people, and to this day his name is held in affectionate remembrance by the inhabitants of the Lower Province where he resided.
During his tenure of that office he also presided at the sittings of the Seignorial Tenure Court.
It seems to have been during his tenure of office as secretary to Governor Simcoe that the idea of embracing a pioneer's life in Canada first took possession of young Talbot's mind.
A Reform Government succeeded, and during its tenure of office we have no information as to the subject of this memoir.
The second was fourteen years afterwards, during the tenure of office of the Sandfield Macdonald-Dorion Government, in 1863.
Mr. Gourlay himself engaged in further litigation with his old enemy, the Duke of Somerset, about the tenure of Deptford Farm.
His tenure of office, indeed, may be said to mark an important epoch in the educational history of this Province.
True, the military system of land-tenure had disappeared with the Restoration, but it was not so with the relations of life, and the habits of thought and feeling which the system had created.
He seems to have been in London almost as much as in Dublin during his tenureof office, and he found time in the midst of his public business to compose another play for the stage.
But this last item only made it clear that in his brief tenure of the throne the Emperor had grasped something of the grand generosity of European statesmen when they deal with the possessions of other people in the Near East.
Meristic law, or that of tenure of property, first determines what every individual possesses by right, and secures it to him; and what he possesses by wrong, and deprives him of it.
It obviated all his difficulties M^r Sherman considered such a tenure as by no means safe or admissible.
It w^d be impossible to define the misbehaviour in such a manner as to subject it to a proper trial; and perhaps still more impossible to compel so high an offender holding his office by such a tenure to submit to a trial.
The probable object of this motion was merely to enforce the argument against the re-eligibility of the Executive magistrate by holding out a tenure during good behaviour as the alternate for keeping him independent of the legislature.
He accompanied her up the hill, explaining to her the details of his forthcoming tenure of the other farm.
This continued to be the practice, requiring a renewal of the brief every three years until 1774, when, as we have seen, Felipe Beltran obtained a dispensation good for his tenure of office, a favor repeated to his successors.
According to these opinions, the President, I understand, is to exercise a power of appointment during the recess of Congress, notwithstanding the recent Act which undertakes to regulate the tenure of office.
The chief event of his tenure of office was the suppression of the Upper Canadian Rebellion.
During his tenure of office surveyed Lakes Erie, Huron, and Superior, with their connecting waters, and almost the whole eastern coast of Canada, including Labrador.
His tenure of office marked by an unsuccessful expedition against the Iroquois, and a long and acrimonious dispute with Laval and the Jesuits.
President Johnson was impeached, mainly for the violation of the tenure of office act, but the senate failed by one vote to convict him.
Elsewhere thetenure varies from two years, in Vermont, to twenty-one years, in Pennsylvania.
What would be the advantage of making the tenure of postmasters permanent?
From generation to generation they live and die, are born and given in marriage, but the tenure of their serfdom is still the same.
The tenure of their offices enables them to pronounce the sound and correct opinions they may have formed without fear, favour, or partiality.
For Strabo is so distinguished a scholar, that his own talents bring him even greater honour than his noble rank and his tenure of the consulate.
As ten to thirteen years usually elapsed between tenure of the consulate and proconsulate, Lollianus Avitus may have been proconsul 154-7 A.
He called upon all his people who by the duty of their tenure or allegiance were obliged to defend their lord and king, and in his writs stimulated them by the same threats of culvertage which had been employed against him.
William gave these lands to Normans, to be held by the tenure of knight-service, according to the law which modified that service in all parts of Europe.
New courts of justice, new names and powers of officers, in a word, a new tenure of land as well as new possessors of it, took place.
The differences of these inferior tenants were decided in the lord's court, in which his steward sat as judge; and this manner of tenure probably gave an origin to copyholders.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tenure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
