Tenant by the manner
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
One who has a less -estate than a fee in land which remain in the reversioner. He is so called because in avowries and other pleadings it is specially shown, In what manner he is tenant of tne land, s(/ contradistinction to the veray tenant, who is calied simply "tenant." Ham. N. P. 393.