TENANT RIGHT. It is good policy in the owners of land to give liberal acknowledgement of the tenant's right to the unexhsusted im provements of the land which he has held, if ho should be forced to leave it ; because this will induto him to cultivate it with energy and liberality. Accordingly in sonic parts of the country, and especially in Lincolnshire, it is tho custom to give the tenant on leaving a propor tion of his expenditure during the last few years of his tenancy—vary lng in amount with the number of years which has elapsed since the expenditure, and the character as to permanence of the improvement. The following table may be taken as describing a not uncommon act of allowances :— The advantage of such a set of allowances to the owner of the land consists in its tendency to produce vigorous and intelligent cultivation; its advantages to the tenantry and labourers are obvious.
Tenant Right is the name for a species of customary estates peculiar to the northern parts of England, in which border services against Scotland were anciently performed before the political union of the countries. Tenant-right estates were holden of the lord of the manor
by payment of certain customary rents and the render of the services above mentioned, are descendible from ancestor to heir according to a customary mode differing in some respects from the rule of descent at common law, and were not devisable by will either directly or by means of a will and surrender to the use of the same, though they are now made devisable by 1 Vict., c. 26, e. 3. Although these estates appear to have many incidents which do not properly belong to villein age tenure or copyhold, not being holden at the will of the lord, or by copy of court roll, and being alienable by deed and admittance thereon, it has been determined that they are not freehold, but that they fall under the same general rules as copyhold estates. (Doe d. Reny v. Huntington, 4 East, 271.)