tenurial
- adjective
- /tɛˈnjʊəriəl/
- Formal
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tenencial
- The government introduced new regulations to clarify the tenurial rights of farmers on state land.
Examples
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Her tenurial status as a professor granted her certain privileges at the university.
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Understanding the tenurial agreements is crucial for anyone looking to lease property in the city.
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Despite the shifts in political regime, tenurial status, and form of religious life at Hexham over the previous century, Aelred could still identify with the place and was still active in devotion to its saints.
Academic text (2018) -
The spatial location of residence or workplace has important effects on, but does not determine the existence of such things as legal rights or moral claims to a given territory, skills and traditions that favor conservation practices, tenurial and economic incentives to preserve or sustainably use resources, and many other important characteristics of people's relationship with the rest of nature.
Academic text (1996) -
In fact, Miracula is the only non-York text in the manuscript, although it may have been inserted into the book as a way to bolster York's tenurial claim to the property at Hexham, which was disputed in the twelfth century.
Academic text (2018)
Synonyms
Relating to the legal right to have and control property
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Etymology
Tenurial comes from an old Latin word tenere, which means 'to hold', and it shares this root with familiar words like tenure and tenant. So, tenurial describes the rules, rights, or status of how someone 'holds' land, property, or a position.