Terr Arius
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In old English law
A landholder. TERRE TENANT (improperly spelled ter tenant). One who has the actual possession of land; but, in a more technical sense, he who is seised of the land; and in the latter sense, the owner of the land, or the person seised, is the terre tenant, and not the lessee.
4 Watts & S. (Pa.) 256; Bac. Abr. "Uses and Trusts."
It has been holden that mere occupiers of the land are not terre tenants.
See 16 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 432; 3 Pa. 229; 2 Saund. 7, note 4; 2 Bl. Comm. 91, 328.