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

The body of lieutenants or subordinates. [Obs.] The list of the lieutenancy of our metropolis. Felton.

Tenancy or tenure under a tenant or lessee; the tenure of an undertenant.

Sown during the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration; -- said of crops. Wharton.

or place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use. [Written also demain.] Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill. Ancient demesne. (Eng. Law) See under Ancient.

owned by any member being usually transferable without the consent of the rest. -- Joint tenancy (Law), a tenure by two or more persons of estate by unity of interest, title, time, and possession, under which the survivor takes the whole. Blackstone. -- Joint tenant (Law), one who holds an estate by joint tenancy.…

See Lieutenancy. [Obs.]

Same as Lieutenancy, 1.

To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate; as, to sever an estate in joint tenancy. Blackstone.

ight, without being joined in interest with any other person; -- distinguished from joint tenancy, coparcenary, and common. Blackstone.

Subordinate tenancy; undertenancy. The widow is immediate tenant to the heir, by a kind of subinfeudation, or undertenancy. Blackstone.

Tenancy. [Obs.] Ridley.

Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free or frank tenements. The thing held is a tenement, the possessor of it a "tenant," and the manner of posses…

The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.