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Tenant vs Manbote - What's the difference?

tenant | manbote |

As nouns the difference between tenant and manbote

is that tenant is one who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others while manbote is (legal|historical|anglo-saxon) a sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his vassal, servant, or tenant.

As a verb tenant

is to hold as, or be, a tenant.

tenant

English

Alternative forms

* tenaunt (obsolete) * tennant (obsolete) * tennaunt (obsolete)

Noun

(Leasehold estate) (en noun)
  • One who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others.
  • *
  • One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.
  • * Cowper
    • sweet tenants of this grove
  • * Cowley
    • the happy tenant of your shade
  • * Byron
    • the sister tenants of the middle deep
  • (legal) One who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership.

    • Synonyms

    * lessee * renter * rentee

    Derived terms

    * tenancy * tenantless * tenantry

    Related terms

    * * tenement

    See also

    * tenet

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hold as, or be, a tenant.

    • manbote

    English

    Alternative forms

    * manbot

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (legal, historical, Anglo-Saxon) A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his vassal, servant, or tenant.
    • Three weeks later an equal sum, under the name of manbote , was paid to the lord, as a compensation for the loss of his vassal.'' — John Lingard, ''A History of England , 1688.
    If a man was slain a special manbot , or compensation for the loss of a man, had to be paid to the lord side by side with the mægbot to the kin. — NYT, Daily Lexeme: Maegbot, 2011 - (quoting H.R. Loyns, 1962)
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    References

    (Webster 1913)