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In common law systems, land tenure, from the French verb "tenir" means "to hold", is the legal regime in which land "owned" by an individual is possessed...

Tenure is a category of academic appointment existing in some countries. A tenured post is an indefinite academic appointment that can be terminated only...

customary land tenure and the enjoyment of some use of land that arises through customary, unwritten practice rather than through written codified law. It is...

A life tenure or service during good behaviour is a term of office that lasts for the office holder's lifetime, unless the office holder is removed from...

Security of tenure is a term with multiple meanings according to jurisdiction. In Australia, it is used in political science to describe a constitutional...

Housing tenure is a financial arrangement and ownership structure under which someone has the right to live in a house or apartment. The most frequent...

different forms of land tenure existed, each effectively a contract with differing rights and duties attached thereto. Such tenures could be either free-hold...

land tenure in Scotland, as conveyancing in Scots law was dominated by feudalism until the Scottish Parliament passed the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc...

professor of law at Columbia Law School. While a student at Yale Law School, she became known for her work in antitrust and competition law in the United...

Old Norse auðr). Allodial tenure seems to have been common throughout northern Europe, but is now unknown in common law jurisdictions apart from Scotland...

all property was owned by the monarch and it devolved through feudal land tenure or other feudal systems of loyalty and fealty. The word property, in everyday...

certain conditions. The tenure relates only to those lands of which his wife was in her lifetime actually seised (or sasined in Scots law) and not therefore...

on Teacher Tenure Law". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 15, 2015. Brody, Leslie (January 15, 2015). "New York City Teacher Tenure Dispute in Court"...

Orkney, along with Scots law. Not all land in Shetland and Orkney can be described as falling under udal tenure. The type of tenure depends on how the title...

commission is established for a fixed tenure and works as an advisory body to the Ministry of Law and Justice. The first Law Commission was established during...

the peasantry. His tenure was also marked by increased revolutionary unrest, to which he responded with a new system of martial law that allowed for the...

The Tenure of Office Act was a United States federal law, in force from 1867 to 1887, that was intended to restrict the power of the president to remove...

Law (1977–1978). She then moved to the University of Houston Law Center (1978–1983), where she became an associate dean in 1980 and obtained tenure in...

States, since it was established in 1789. Supreme Court justices have life tenure, meaning that they serve until they die, resign, retire, or are impeached...

American legal scholar at Harvard Law School. She became the first Asian American woman awarded tenure at Harvard Law School in 2010. Suk attended Hunter...