Sentence examples for free tenure from inspiring English sources

Another form of free tenure was the spiritual tenure of bishops or monasteries, their sole obligation being to pray for the souls of the grantor and his heirs.

Another type of free tenure was socage, primarily customary socage, the principal service of which was usually agricultural in nature, such as performing so many days' plowing each year for the lord.

Of the free tenures, the first was tenure in chivalry, principally grand sergeanty and knight service.

Knutsford received a market, free burgage (tenure from the crown), and power to elect a mayor from a charter of 1292, and a charter in 1332 provided for fairs on certain festival days.

It's not a political question like free speech, tenure, or academic freedom.

Wells had been granted charters to hold markets by Bishop Robert (1136 66) and free burgage tenure was granted by Bishop Reginald (1174-1191).

Some observers, however, are unwilling to reach such a conclusion until restrictions are removed and the peasants have a free choice of tenure and farm organization.

But if we give people free things, like tenure, even the best and brightest will slack off, either that or be a saint.

His list of publications is testament to the free rein of tenure: he worked on the first light from the big bang, proposed a new theory of ice ages, and found evidence for an upturn in impact craters on the moon.

"Boris" is the last production of Kent Nagano's productive if hardly problem-free seven-year tenure as the Bayerische Staatsoper's music director; from here he goes to the Hamburg Staatsoper.

The league's program was based upon the "three F's": fair rent, fixity of tenure, and free sale of the right of occupancy.