mesne tenant

Examples of mesne tenant in the following topics:

• Feudalism

  • The king was the absolute "owner" of land in the feudal system, and all nobles, knights, and other tenants, termed vassals, merely "held" land from the king, who was thus at the top of the feudal pyramid.
  • Below the king in the feudal pyramid was a tenant-in-chief (generally in the form of a baron or knight), who was a vassal of the king.
  • Holding from the tenant-in-chief was a mesne tenant—generally a knight or baron who was sometimes a tenant-in-chief in their capacity as holder of other fiefs.
  • Below the mesne tenant, further mesne tenants could hold from each other in series.

• Tenants, Sharecroppers, and Migrants

  • The transforming of the West in the late nineteenth century relied on various types of laborers–-tenants, sharecroppers, and migrants.
  • A tenant farmer is one who resides on and farms land owned by a landlord.
  • Tenant farming is an agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often a measure of operating capital and management, while tenant farmers contribute their labor along with at times varying amounts of capital and management.
  • In some systems, the tenant could be evicted at whim (tenancy at will); in others, the landowner and tenant sign a contract for a fixed number of years (tenancy for years or indenture).
  • Examine the experience of tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and migrant workers in the late nineteenth century

• Agriculture, Tenancy, and the Environment

  • When slavery ended, the large slave-based plantations were mostly subdivided into tenant or sharecropper farms of 20 to 40 acres.
  • Landowners provided more supervision to sharecroppers, and less or none to tenant farmers.
  • The term "rural tenancy" usually describes the situation of previously enslaved people who were then tenants on the landowner's property.
  • The landowner would extend to the farmer shelter, food, and necessary items on credit to be repaid out of the tenant's share of the crop.
  • The farmer could, if he desired, charge the tenant extremely high interest on the advanced pay because there were no lending laws applicable to migrant or tenant workers at the time.

• Housing Policy

  • This kind of housing assistance helps poor tenants by giving a monthly subsidy to their landlords.
  • This assistance can be 'project based,' which applies to specific properties, or 'tenant based,' which provides tenants with a voucher they can use anywhere vouchers are accepted.
  • Thus, one of the major concerns with the relocation of scattered-site tenants into white, middle-class neighborhoods is that residents will move elsewhere – a phenomenon known as white flight.
  • To counter this phenomenon, some programs place tenants in private apartments that do not appear outwardly different.
  • Scattered-site housing provides no better living conditions for its tenants than traditional concentrated housing if the units are not properly maintained.

• Price Ceilings

  • This regulation is meant to protect current tenants.
  • Unable to afford the new, significantly higher rent, a majority of the neighborhood's tenants may be forced to move out of the neighborhood.
  • Rent controls limit the possibility of tenant displacement by minimizing the amount by which rent can be increased.

• Farm and Rural Programs

  • For example, the AAA stipulated that farmers were required to pay a share of the government funds they recieved (as part of the acre reduction contracts) to the tenant farmers and sharecroppers who held a portion of the farmland.
  • What's more, this requirement gave landlords an incentive to get rid of their tenant farmers and replace them with wage laborers.
  • Over the remaining years of the Great Depression, the once-common practice of sharecropping and tenant farming became exceedingly rare and vast amounts of tenant farmers were put out, without homes or means of income.
  • By the last half of the century sharecropping and tenant farming had become obsolete.

• Property

  • An example of private property stimulating economic growth is when a homeowner makes home improvements to increase the value of their home, when in a similar situation a tenant in a government-owned building would not invest money in home improvements.
  • An example of private property stimulating economic growth is when a homeowner makes home improvements to increase the value of their home, when in a similar situation a tenant in a government owned building would not invest money in home improvements.

• Overcoming wasteful building practices

  • This is good news when one takes into account that efficient buildings typically sell or lease faster and retain tenants better than their inefficient counterparts.

• Building a closed-loop eco-industrial park

  • Maintaining ‘anchor tenants' (usually in the form of a wastewater treatment facility or an energy producer) whose continued presence and outputs make industrial symbiosis practical.

• Introduction to Building Better Buildings

  • Currently, PEEC, which is a pilot project for the Green Building Council, is home to 20 manufacturing companies and office tenants.