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TENANT (from Lat. tenere, to hold), one who holds real property by some form of title from a landlord. For the forms of tenancy, &c., see LANDLORD AND TENANT.

TENANT-RIGHT, in law, a term expressing the right which a tenant has, either by custom or by law, against his landlord for compensation for improvements at the determination of his tenancy. In England it is governed for the most part by the Agricultural Holdin ...

TENNANT, CHARLES (1768-1838), Scottish industrial chemist, was born at Ochiltree, Ayrshire, on the 3rd of May 1768. He started in business as a bleacher at Darnley, and in 1798 took out a patent for a bleach liquor formed by passing chlorine into a mixture of

TEANO (anc. Teanum Sidicinum), a town of Campania, Italy, in the province of Caserta, 21 m. N.W. of that town on the main line to Rome from Naples, forming conjointly with Calvi an episcopal see. Pop. (1901) 6067 (town); 13,505 (commune). It stands at the S.E.

... rs' War, be was general of the French army in Lorraine. In 1636 he was made lieutenantgeneral of the army. He appears to have retired from public life shortly after the death of Richelieu in 1643. His first wife died in 1636, and in 1644 he married Francoisc d ...

... and with Archbishop Beaton held the chief power. In March he was appointed lieutenant of the marches, and suppressed the disorder and anarchy on the border. In July the guardianship of the king was entrusted to him for a fixed period till the ist of November, ...

... erth and Venlo. In the following year (i 703), having obtained the rank of lieu tenant-general, Leopold took part in the siege of Bonn and distinguished himself very greatly in the battle of Hochstadt, in which the Austrians and their allies were defeated by t ...

... they at first despised. At Whydah, the chief centre, there is a serpent temple, tenanted by some fifty snakes; every python of the danh-gbi kind must be treated with respect, and death is the penalty for killing one, even by accident. Danh-gbi has numerous wiv ...

... y one of the most distinguished Jews of his time. Edward Lasker, the gifted lieutenant of Bennigscn in the leadership of the National Liberal party. The unification of Germany in 1870, and the rapid payment of the enormous French war indemnity, had given an un ...

... s Antonius, the " orator," and uncle of the triumvir. He was one of Sulla's lieutenants in the Mithradatic War, and, after Sulla's return, remained in Greece to plunder with a force of cavalry, tn 76 he was tried for his malpractices, but escaped punishment; s ...

... ount Dunluce, and subsequently he was appointed a privy councillor and lord-lieutenant of the county of Antrim. On the I2th of December 1620 he was created earl of Antrim. In 1621 he was charged with harbouring Roman Catholic priests, confessed his offence and ...

... tolic congregation at whose head he placed himself. Under him were his four lieutenants, his " mystic sister," Margherita di Franck, and 4000 disciples. He taught almost the same principles of devotion as Segarelli, but the Messianic character which he attribu ...

... -general of artillery — a post which he threw up, together with his rank of lieutenant-general, because he was not allowed to punish certain fraudulent contractors. The king, Ferdinand VI., exiled him to his estates, but Charles III. on his accession took him ...

... of the " lords of the congregation " he was one of James Stuart's principal lieutenants during the warfare between the reformers and the regent, Mary of Lorraine; and later with Murray he advised and supported Mary queen of Scots, who regarded him with great f ...

... of the " lords of the congregation " he was one of James Stuart's principal lieutenants during the warfare between the reformers and the regent, Mary of Lorraine; and later with Murray he advised and supported Mary queen of Scots, who regarded him with great f ...

... he fortress of Tantallon was placed in his keeping, and in 1565 he was made lieutenant of the north of Scotland. He is described the same year by the French ambassador as " trcs grand catholique hard! et vaillant et remuant , comme Ton diet, mais de nul ATHOLL ...

... were descended, and who was also the father of Sir Ashley Eden (1831-1887), lieutenant-governor of Bengal. The ist baron had two distinguished brothers — Morton Eden (1752-1830), a diplomatist, who married Lady Elizabeth Henley, and in 1799 was created ist Bar ...

... o the lord of Beaujeu, as marshal of France. In March 1352 he was appointed lieutenant for the king in the territory between the Loire and the Dordogne, in June 1353 in Normandy, and in 1355 in Artois, Picardy and the Boulonnais. It was Audrehem who arrested C ...

... jectments as between those who hold, or have held, the relation of landlord and tenant. Under the Rules of the Supreme Court, actions in England for the recovery of land are commenced and proceed in the same manner as ordinary actions. But the historical inter ...

... well as engineer rank — the chief engineer as colonel of foot, directors as lieutenantcolonel, and so forth down to practitioners as ensigns. On the i8th of November 1782 engineer grades, except that of chief engineer, were abolished, and the establishment was ...

... of the British army had the title of ensign (now replaced by that of second lieutenant). It is the duty of the officers of this rank to carry the colours of the regiment (see

... The epaulette is worn in the British navy by officers above the rank of sub-lieutenant; in the army it ceased to be worn about 1855. It is worn by officers in the United States navy above the rank of ensign; since 1872 it is only worn by general officers in th ...

... ish law, the reversion of lands to the next lord on the failure of heirs of the tenant. " When the tenant of an estate in fee simple dies without having alienated his estate in his lifetime or by his will, and without leaving any heirs either lineal or collate ...

... took possession with great pomp on the i6th of April 1707. He was also made lieutenant-general to the emperor Joseph I. The attempt which he made against Toulon in the course of the same year failed completely, because the invasion of the kingdom of Naples ret ...

... representatives of Russia abroad, dated Berlin and beginning with the words maintenant la paix est assurie, Gorchakov seemed to take to himself the credit of having checkmated Bismarck and saved Europe from a great war. Bismarck resented bitterly this conduct ...

IV. lieutenants. But the duke of Clarence betrayed to his brother the army which he had gathered in King Henry's name, and Battle of manv °f the Lancastrians were slow to join the earl, Barnet. from their distrust of his loyalty. Edward, dashing Death of throu ...

... was rescinded, his estates restored, and he was made a privy councillor and lieutenant-general. In 1543 he negotiated the treaty of peace and marriage, and the same year he himself married Margaret, daughter of Robert, Lord Maxwell. Shortly afterwards strife b ...

... in 1792; Commencement Bay was surveyed for the United States government by Lieutenant Charles Wilkes in 1841, and the present city was founded by General Morton Matthew McCarver in 1868 and was at first called Commencement City. That name was soon changed to ...

... t exacted by king and barons over and above the annual firma burgi from burgage tenants, since all boroughs after the Norman Conquest came to be regarded as in some lord's demesne. The tax displaced the Danegeld so far as the towns and demesne lands of the Cro ...

... lations passed through it.1 Hence the following appliance was worked out by Lieutenant Solari and officers in the Italian navy.1 The tube provided with certain screw adjustments had a single cell and a telephone placed in series with it, and one end of the tub ...

... lar vote on the amendment. The executive department consists of a governor, lieutenantgovernor, secretary of state, comptroller of public accounts, treasurer, commissioner of the general land office, and attorney-general. Contrary to the usual custom in other ...

... e Danube and induced numerous Gothic bands to give in their allegiance; his lieutenant Modares, a Gothic refugee, defeated the invaders severely in Thrace. At the end of the year Theodosius went to Constantinople to be crowned. Returning to Thessalonica in 380 ...

... ain in the Guards, with which he served in Tangier, and in 1685 he was made lieutenant-colonel of a regiment of fusiliers, but almost at once he gave up his commission because he disliked the proceedings of James II., and became colonel of an Anglo-Dutch regim ...

... into being, Gotthelf leading J.he way with his tales, Uli the Serf and Uli the Tenant. Auerbach followed with his village stories, which opened a new world of thought; Stifter and a host of others brought up the rear. This new impulse in literature soon sprea ...

... e cross of naval merit for saving the life of a sailor in 1841 and became a lieutenant in 1845. He served on the West Indian station for three years, and was engaged in repressing the slave trade before he was promoted frigate captain in 1857. He was chief of ...

... nhalt during the Walcheren expedition. He fought in the Peninsula, becoming lieutenant-colonel in 1835 and retiring as colonel in 1837. After abortive attempts to enter parliament in 1818 and 1826, he was returned in 1831 as member for Ashburton. He was a prol ...

... served with distinction in Italy and on the Rhine till 1709, when he became lieutenant-colonel and aide-de-camp to Field Marshal Count Guide Starhemberg (1654-1737) in Spain. A year later, for specially distinguished services, he was made colonel, and in 1712 ...

... t St Cyr he received 'a commission in the Staff Corps in 1837, was promoted lieutenant in 1840, and captain in 1843. He served as a captain in Algeria under Marshal Bugeaud, who, in recognition of his gallantry in the battles of Sidi Yussuf and Isly, made him ...

... ssibly in other states also. [CONSTITUTION the Senate is, in most states, a lieutenant-governor, whom the people have directly elected. Bills may originate in either house, but in about half of the states money bills must originate in the House of Representati ...

... % (9019 farms) in 1880 to 91.2% (17,674 farms) in 1900; those operated by cash tenants increased from 0.6 % (60 farms) in 1880 to 2.6% (506 farms) in 1900, and those operated by share tenants from 4% (373 farms) in 1880 to 6.2% (1207 farms) in 1900. The total ...