Year to year, tenancy from

This estate arises either expressly, as when land is let from year to year; or by a general parol demise, without any determinate interest, but reserving the payment of an annual rent; or impliedly, as when property is occupied generally under a rent payable yearly, half-yearly, or quarterly ; or when a tenant holds over, after the expiration of his tenn. without having entered into any new contract, and pays rent, (before which he is tenant on sufferance.) Wharton.

Defined under Year in Black's Law Dictionary.