Tenancy

The relation created by a letting of real estate to one who is to hold of him as landlord. See 24 Mich. 279, 9 Am. Rep. 124.

Is the relation of a tenant to the land which he holds. Hence it signifies
(1) the estate of a tenant, as in the expressions "joint tenancy," "tenancy in common;"
(2) the term or interest of a tenant for years or at will, as when we say that a lessee must remove his fixtures during his tenancy. Sweet.

— General tenancy. A tenancy which is not fixed and made certain in point of duration by the agreement of the parties. Brown v. Bragg, 22 Ind. 122,

— Joint tenancy. An estate in joint tenancy is an estate in fee-simple, fee-tail, for life, for years, or'at will, arising by purchase or grant to two or more persons. Joint tenants have one and the same interest, accruing by one and the same conveyance, commencing at one and the same time, and held by one and the same undivided possession. The grand incident of joint tenancy is survivorship, by which the entire tenancy on the decease of any joint tenant remains to the survivors, and at length to the last survivor. Pub. St. Mass. 1882, p. 1292; Simons v. McLain, 51 Kan. 153, 32 Pac. 919; Thornburg v. Wiggins, 135 Ind. 178, 34 N. E. 999, 22 L. R. A. 42, 41 Am. St. Rep. 422; Appeal of Lewis, 85 Mich. 340, 48 N. W. 580, 24 Am. St. Rep. 94; Redemptorist Fathers v. Lawler, 205 Pa. 24, 54 Atl. 487. A joint interest is one owned by several persons in equal shares, by a title created by a single will Or transfer, when expressly declared in the will or transfer to be a joint tenancy, or when granted or devised to executors or trustees as joint tenants. Civ. Code Cal. § 683.

— Several tenancy. A tenancy which is 'separate, and not held jointly with another person.

— Tenancy at sufferance. This is the least and lowest estate which can subsist in realty. It is in strictness not an estate, but a mere possession only. It arises when a person, after his right to the occupation. under a lawful title, is at an end, continues (having no title at all) in possession of the land, without the agreement or disagreement of the person in whom the right of possession resides. 2 Bl. Comm. 150.

A holding or mode of holding an estate. Tenancy in common: the holding of an estate in lands by several persons, by several and distinct titles, but by unity of possession.

In old English law. A house of habitation, or place to live in, held of another.