(UK, legal) Describing a tenancy that exists for an agreed term, at the end of which the property may be recovered by the landlord.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(NZ) The socialist policy of replacing freehold tenure by a system of perpetual lease from the state, with all land transfer conducted through the state.
(property law, E&W) The freehold tenure of part of a multioccupancy building (typically a flat) with shared responsibility for common services.
(historical, Scotland) A tenant of the same stock as his landlord, or who held his lands in succession, from father to son, for several generations.
(property law, E&W) An agricultural tenancy agreed before 1 September 1995, to which the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 applies.
A tenancy of this kind.