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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 ...

ASYLUM. RIGHT OF (Fr. droit d'asile; Ger. Asylrechf), in international law, the right which a state possesses, by virtue of the principle that every independent state is sole master within its boundaries, of allowing fugitives from another country to enter or ...

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.

... st. The Critic line ended with Matilda (fl. 1240), countess of Angus in her own right, who married in 1243 Gilbert de Umfravill and founded the Norman line of three earls, which ended in 1381, the then holder of the title being summoned to the English parliame ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... passes by which in a single rise from the Po basin the heads of valleys leading right down to the head of Lake Constance could be reached. These were the Bernardino, SplQgcn and Septimer, to mention them in the order from west to east. By the Romans the Simplo ...

... yterian), the University of Puget Sound (1903, Methodist Episcopal), the Annie Wright Seminary (1884), a boarding and day school for girls, and the Pacific Lutheran Academy and Business College. The Tacoma High School has an excellent stadium for athletic cont ...

... 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 ...

... orked by a battery and reversing handle, or two " tapper " keys, the motions to right and left of one end of the index corresponding to the dashes and dots of the Morse alphabet. To increase the speed of working, two single-needle instruments were sometimes us ...

... as principal or second, in fighting a duel or in sending a challenge) have the right ol suffrage. The constitution originally forbade the registration of voters, but an amendment of 1891 permits it in cities having a population of ten thousand or more, and th ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Ju»tui P*rth««,Goth».,G*rn»«iiy. W AA&A O4UP %»« Ai Scale, 1 : 12, 500, 000 Copyright in. the United Stales of America, 19JO. ty The Encyclopaedia Britannica Co. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY] the mountains, apparently consisting of less resistant crystalline rocks, have ...

... % (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 ...

... at time had steadily refused to acknowledge that Portugal possessed territorial rights north of Ambriz, concluded a treaty recognizing Portuguese sovereignty over both banks of the lower Congo; but the treaty, meeting with opposition in England and Germany, wa ...

... 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 ...

... f country to the newcomers. On the 24th of April 1884 Liideritz transferred his rights to the German imperial government, and on the following 7th of August a German protectorate over the district was proclaimed. (See AFRICA, § 5, and GERMAN SOUTH-WEST APRICA. ...

... spectrum of the aurora borealis, and detected and measured the characteristic bright line in its yellow green region; but he was mistaken in supposing that this same line, which is often called by his name, is also to be seen in the zodiacal light. His son, K ...

... the western |x>rtion of the eastern part of the territory and receives, on the right, the Fuhne and, on the left, the Wipper and the Bode. The climate is on the whole mild, though somewhat inclement in the higher regions to the south-west. The area of the duc ...

... 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 ...

... er. Anklam, formerly Tanglim, was originally a Slav fortress; it obtained civic rights in 1 244 and joined the Hanseatic league. In 1648 it passed to Sweden, but in 1676 was retaken by Frederick William I. of Brandenburg, and after being plundered by the Russi ...

... g of trees and the formation of gardens in various parts of the city give it a bright and attractive appearance. Water is obtained from springs at the foot of the hill, but it is proposed to bring an abundant supply from the river Ikopa, which skirts the capit ...

... head of an observer cast upon a bank of cloud or mist. The halo diminishes in brightness from the centre outwards, and is probably due to the diffraction of light. Under favourable conditions four concentric rings may be seen round the shadow of the observer' ...

... After 1854 she devoted herself almost exclusively to the agitation for woman's rights, and became recognized as one of the ablest and most zealous advocates, both as a public speaker and as a writer, of the complete legal equality of the two sexes. From 1868 ...

... oms of water off the English coasts. In the order PSEUDAXOMA the colonies arc upright and branched, of a number of short zooid* whose proximal end* are imbedded in a coenenchyma containing numerou* ramifying tolrnia and iniculex. The coenenchyma i* further Hir ...

... 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 ...

... , for Viscount Massereene and Ferrard (who founded Antrim Castle in 1662) had a right to maintain a fighting fleet on the lough. On the 7th of June 1798 there was a smart action in the town between the king's troops and a large body of rebels, in which the lat ...

... 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 ...

... TWERP (Fr. Anvrri). capital of the above province, an ini|Mirt.iii( city on the right bank of the Scheldt, Belgium's « liii-i centre of commerce and a strong fortified position. Modern Antwerp is a finely laid out city with a succession of broad avenues which ...

... n peasant life, and although somewhat melancholy in tone are interspersed with bright and witty scenes. Among the best known are Der Meineidbauer (1871), Die Kreuzelschreiber (1872), Der G'wissenswurm (1874), Hand und Hen (1875), Doppelselbstmord (1875), Das v ...

... hat has recently been called " conditional immortality " — eternal life for the righteous, the children of God, alone. Allied with this more empiricist stand-point is the assertion that Greek philosophy borrowed from Moses; but in studying the Fathers we const ...

... e of the Antiochene Church. They expressed " a claim to deference rather than a right to be obeyed " (Hort, op. tit. 81-85). Such was the kind of authority attaching to apostles, whether collectively or individually. It was not a fixed notion, but varied in qu ...

... e apostles; and an effort was made, as by Cotelier, to distinguish the writings rightly and wrongly assigned to such. Thus editions tended to vary with the historical views of editors. But the convenience of the category " Apostolic Fathers " to express not on ...

... modern criticism accepts this identification as a fact (Lagarde, Hamack, Funk, Brightman). Lightfoot, indeed, still hesitated (Ap. Fathers, n. i. 266 n.) on the ground that Pseudo-Ignatius occasionally misunderstands the Constitutions, that the two writings gi ...