Tenement
- This means different things to different people.
- Historically this is a building on several storeys often poor quality multi-occupied buildings comprising several homes within. Individual households share a common entrance and stairway as in a tenement block.
- There are other more complex legal meanings permitting rights over land owned by others who cannot prevent such access known as Easements:
- Dominant tenements
- Servient tenements
- See expressly granted Easements
Published: 11 November 2013
Last Updated: 17 November 2021