Tenacies

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tenancy \Ten"an*cy\, n.; pl. {Tenacies}. [Cf. OF. tenace, LL.
     tenentia. See {Tenant}.] (Law)
     (a) A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the
         temporary possession of what belongs to another.
     (b) (O. Eng. Law) A house for habitation, or place to live
         in, held of another. --Blount. Blackstone. Wharton.


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