a. [f. as prec. + -ARY1; cf. med.L. tenementāri-us.] a. Leased to tenants. b. Consisting of tenements or dwelling-houses. See also FRANK-TENEMENTARY.
a. 1641. Spelman, Feuds & Tenures, vii. Such were the Ceorls among the Saxons; but of two sorts, one that hired the Lord’s Outland or Tenementary Land (called also the Folcland) like our Farmers.
1701. Cowell’s Interpr., s.v., The Saxon Thanes who possess’d Bocland, or Hereditary free Estates, divided them into … Inland and Outland…. The Outland was granted out to Tenants under Arbitrary Rents and Services, and therefore call’d Tenementary Land, the Tenants Land, or the Tenancy.
1872. B’ham Daily Post, 28 Feb., 7/2. Assisting her mother who was the owner of some small tenementary property at Saltley.
1905. Daily Chron., 31 Jan., 3/5. By doing this he [a landlord who removes from one of his tenement houses to another] converts the lodgers into tenementary occupiers and the tenementary occupiers into lodgers, the result being that all of them lose their votes … through no fault of their own.
