This section is from the book "Popular Law Library Vol6 Real Property, Abstracts, Mining Law", by Albert H. Putney. Also available from Amazon: Popular Law-Dictionary.
Tenements is a larger term than land and includes everything which might be holden under the Feudal system.
"Tenementum, tenement, is a large word to pass not only lands and other inheritances which are holden, but also offices, rents, commons, profits apprender out of lands, and the like, wherein a man hath any franktenement, and whereof he is seised, ut de libero tene-mento." 11
10 Coke's Institute, Vol. I, pages 197-198.
 
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