Tenement

(těn'e-ment.) [From L. tenens, holding.] (Law.) Generally, a term expre ive of all corporeal hereditaments, and of permanent incorporeal hereditaments created by the same: in its more limited, and best understood signification, however, it denotes houses and other buildings erected upon lands. Teneriffe', one of the CANARY ISLANDS, q. v. [s. 885]