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Meaning of "tenant-in-chief" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TENANT-IN-CHIEF

tenant-in-chief


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TENANT-IN-CHIEF

noun
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adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tenant-In-Chief is a noun.
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WHAT DOES TENANT-IN-CHIEF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tenant-in-chief

In medieval and early modern Europe the term tenant-in-chief, denoted a person who held his lands under various forms of feudal land tenure directly from the king or territorial prince to whom he did homage, as opposed to holding them from another nobleman or senior member of the clergy.[1][2] The tenure was one which denoted great honour, but also carried heavy responsibilities as the tenants-in-chief were originally responsible for providing knights and soldiers for the king's feudal army.[3] Other names for tenant-in-chief were captal or baron,[a] although the latter term came to mean specifically one who held in-chief by the tenure per baroniam, the feudal baron.[1] The Latin term was tenens in capite;[4][b] In most countries allodial property could be held by laypeople or the church, however in England after the Norman Conquest, the king became in law the only holder of land by allodial title; thus all the lands in England became the property of the Crown.[5][6] A tenure by frankalmoin, which in other countries was regarded as a form of privileged allodial holding, was in England regarded as a feudal tenement.

Definition of tenant-in-chief in the English dictionary

The definition of tenant-in-chief in the dictionary is a tenant who held some or all of his lands directly from the king.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TENANT-IN-CHIEF

tenaciously · tenaciousness · tenacity · tenacula · tenaculum · tenaille · tenaillon · tenancies · tenancy · tenancy agreement · tenant · tenant farmer · tenant in common · tenant-like · tenantable · tenantless · tenantry · tenants association · tenants´ charter · tenantship

WORDS THAT END LIKE TENANT-IN-CHIEF

chief · commander in chief · commander-in-chief · commanders in chief · editor in chief · editor-in-chief · examination-in-chief · examinations-in-chief · examine-in-chief · fire chief · handkerchief · in chief · kerchief · mischief · neckerchief · paper handkerchief · pocket-handkerchief · police chief · subchief · thief

Synonyms and antonyms of tenant-in-chief in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tenant-in-chief» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TENANT-IN-CHIEF

Find out the translation of tenant-in-chief to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of tenant-in-chief from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tenant-in-chief» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

房客总司令
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

inquilino en jefe
570 millions of speakers
en

English

tenant-in-chief
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

किरायेदार इन चीफ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المستأجر العام للقوات المسلحة
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

арендатор - Главный
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

tenant- em-chefe
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

ভাড়াটিয়া-ইন-চিফ
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

locataire en chef
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Penyewa utama
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Mieter -in-Chief
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

テナント·イン·チーフ
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

세입자 국장
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Tenant-in-chief
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người thuê nhà -in-chief
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

குத்தகைதாரர் தலைமை
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

प्रमुख भाडेकरू
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

kiracı müdürü
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

tenant - in - chief
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

najemca naczelny
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

орендар - Головний
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

locatar - in - șef
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ενοικιαστή - in-chief
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

huurder -in- hoof
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hyresgäst och chefredaktör
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

leietaker -in -chief
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tenant-in-chief

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TENANT-IN-CHIEF»

Discover the use of tenant-in-chief in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tenant-in-chief and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Aristocracy of Norman England
Gilbert de 'Bretevile' was a tenant-in-chief in Hampshire, Berkshire, and Wiltshire, and presumably came from Breteuil, the head of FitzOsbern's Norman estates. William Alis, a tenant-in-chief in Hampshire, came from a family which held of the  ...
Judith A. Green, 2002
2
The Royal Prerogative and the Learning of the Inns of Court
the younger son, but not the tenancy which descends to the daughter/'4 Similarly, Constable argues that, if land descended to the heir from another source than the tenant-in-chief of the king, the king would not have his prerogative in that.
Margaret McGlynn, 2004
3
Domesday People: Domesday book
it expected straightforward answers: either the tenant-in-chief held it in demesne or he had subinfeudated it ... all lower levels of tenure mattered not one bit to the commissioners.'53 Since contemporary external evidence indicates that ...
K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, 1999
4
The Indian Revenue System as it is: A Letter Addressed to ...
Summary suits for rent between tenant-in-chief and sub-tenant will be decided according to these rates,unless proof be adduced that they have been set aside by the Dewanny Courts, or altered by voluntary agreement; and such voluntary ...
Harvey Garnett Tuckett, 1840
5
Shakespeare's Legal Language: A Dictionary
in capite (A) A tenant in capite or tenant in chief held land directly from the king. This had certain consequences in the context of feudal relations. By the time that actual services had been commuted to money payments (about 1200) all tenures  ...
B. J. Sokol, Mary Sokol, 2004
6
The Foundation of Nostell Priory, 1109-1153
... earl Warenne Geoffrey FitzPain Tenant in Chief [withWmd'Arches] Tenant in Chief Tenant in Chief William FitzNigel Tenant in Chief Tenant in Chief Tenant in Chief William a" Arches Swein FitzAilric Gilbert Fitz Jocelyn Alan de Creon Robert ...
Judith A. Frost, 2007
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Magna Carta
There were many allegations of disseisin, but there seems to be no example of a straightforward case of novel disseisin between one tenant-in-chief and another over a tenancy-in-chief throughout the legal records of the reign of John.4' The ...
James Clarke Holt, 1992
8
Changing Times 1066-1500
Write a letter to your local tenant-in-chief complaining about the changes William has made to the Church. Try to persuade the tenant-in-chief that now William is dead, it is time to change some things back again. The guidelines below will help  ...
‎2003
9
The Horizontal Society: Understanding the Covenant and ...
tenant-in-chief agreed to render the king specified services, such as providing forty knights each year to fight for the king, or sounding a horn when the king's enemies approached from Scotland, or furnishing the king with ten fat geese or other ...
José Faur, 2008
10
The Works...
So that I am hereby inforced, for avoiding of Confusion, to speak severally, first of the fines for alienation of lands held in chief, and then of the fines upon the suing forth of writs original. That the king's tenant in chief could not in ancient time ...
Francis Bacon, 1753

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TENANT-IN-CHIEF»

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11 stunning castles you can visit within an hour drive of Greater …
... first recorded mention in the Domesday Survey of 1086, by William Peveril, who held lands in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire as a tenant-in-chief of the king. «Manchester Evening News, Jul 15»
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Magna Carta – first step in a long road to freedom
When a tenant-in-chief died the land reverted to the king. There was no formal limit on how long he could exploit the land before allowing an heir to inherit, nor ... «The Australian Financial Review, Jun 15»
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