The growth of multiple tenancies was itself the product of aristocratic competition for good service, and the competition of their tenants for good lordship.
There have been recent increases in the extent to which tenancies are registered in the names of both parties, again of benefit to the woman.
In order to revive private renting, rents were deregulated on new tenancies.
Closely akin to leaseholds, and like them classed as personal interests in land, are tenancies at will and at sufferance.
They also sought to change permanent and heritable tenancies to leaseholds for lives and years, and then for fixed terms.
Except on newly enclosed lands, yearly tenancies were the norm from the later seventeenth century, and this continued until after 1870.
First, the granting of the same estates to more than one beneficiary ('double grants'), and secondly the creation of mesne tenancies.
In the case of the creation of mesne tenancies, relations between mesne and sitting tenants could be uneasy.
