tenement house

A house divided into tenements occupied by separate families. In tenement houses the landlord does not reside on the premises. [TENEMENT, І. 2.] In most large cities of this country, to the exorbitantly high price of land whereon to build, the policy has obtained of building houses containing apartments to accommodate (or contain) as many persons as can be crowded into them. These apartments are let by the landlord either in suites or by the single room, and here are ma ed together, usually surrounded by squalor and filth, many individuals of the poorer cla es. Owing to their crowded condition these houses present problems of sanitation impo ible of solution, and are breeding places of disease and nurseries of plagues in times of epidemics. In some cities tenement houses are under police surveillance, but their existence presents one of the hardest questions of modern civilization. IMG:content-0908.png:[blocks in formation] "The other, or tenemental lands, they distributed among their tenants." - Black stone: Comment., bk. iii., ch. 2. těn-e-ment-ar-ỹ, adj. [Eng. tenement; -ary.] Capable of being leased; designed for tenancy; held by tenants. "Such were the Ceorls among the Saxons; but of two sorts, one that hired the lord's 's outland or tenementary land (called also the Folcland) like our farmers." -Spel man: Of Feuds and Tenures, ch. vii. tě-nen-dăs, s. [Lat., acc us. fem. pl. of tenendus, fut. pa . par. of teneo to hold.] Scots Law : That clause of a charter by which the particular tenure is expre ed. tě-nen-dum, s. [Lat., neut. sing. of tenendus, fut. pa . par. of teneo to hold.] Law : That clause in a deed wherein the tenure of the land is created and limited. Its office is to limit and appoint the tenure of the land which is held, and how and of whom it is to be held. *těněnt, s. [Lat., 3d pers. pl. pr. indic. of teneo =to hold.] A tenet (q. v.). "His tenent is always as singular and aloof from the vulgar as he can."- Earle : Micro cosmography. těn-er-îffe, s . [See def.] A wine brought from Teneriffe, one of the Canary Islands, resembling Madeira, but a little more acid in taste. *tě-ner-I-ty, s. [Lat. teneritas , from tener tender (q. v.).] Tenderne .