(512) mon law. (513) two or more hold the same land, with interests accruing under different titles; or accruing under the same title, but at different periods; or conferred by words of limitation importing that the grantees are to take in distinct shares. 1 Steph. Com. 323. The holding of a personal chattel, as of a ship or vessel, by several persons at the same time, with distinct but undivided interests. See 3 Kent's Com. 151. (514) spectly endeavor the performance of any Cowell. See Tendre. (515) and good, it behooves the plaintiff to offer AL) LAND. [L. Lat. terra tenementalis.] to aver or prove [to express himself ready In English law. That part of a manor to verify] all his count. Id. c. 98. Littlewhich is granted out to tenants, as distinton uses this word in its present English form. Al jour assesse, de tender à luy; at the day set, to tender to him. Litt. sect. 340. guished from the demesne lands of the lord; the tenant's land or tenancy. Called, in Saxon law, the outland. Cowell. Spelman, vocc. Inland, Utland. 2 Bl. Com. 90. (516) shall pertain to villeinage, and nevertheless ing examples: Do tali, &c. habendum et be a freeman, since he does this in regard of the villeinage, and not in regard of his own person. Bract. fol. 26. A tenement; a building for habitation or occupation; a messuage, house or shop. There is a writ in the Register, De tenementis legatis, (about tenements bequeathed.) One form of this writ, directed to the mayor and sheriffs of London, recites that, "whereas, according to custom in the said city hitherto used and approved, it is lawful for every citizen of the said city to bequeath his tenements in the said city, by his last will and testament, to whomsoever he pleases, in the same way as his chattels, (licet unicuique civi ejusdem civitatis tenementa sua in eadem civitate, in testamento suo in ultima voluntate sua, tanquam catalla sua legare cuicunque vol uerit;) and that one S. late a citizen of the said city, had in his last will and testament bequeathed four shops, with the appurtenances, (quatuor shopas cum pertinentiis,) or four messuages and ten shops, (quatuor mesuagia et decem shopas,) with the appurtenances, &c. to E." Reg. Orig. 244 b. Another writ, directed to the bailiffs of Great Yarmouth, recites a similar custom of the burgesses of that town, and applies it to a messuage bequeathed by will, &c. Id. ibid. A chattel; a thing bought and held by a villein. Et quod tenementum contineri possit sub generalitate catallorum, quantam ad dominum, videtur, quia ex catallis illorum servorum, (quæ dominorum esse debent,) empta sunt tenementa; and it seems, that as far as concerns the lord, a tenement may be embraced under the general designation of chattels; because, with the chattels of those bondmen, (which ought to be their lords',) tenements are bought. Bract. fol. 26. A manor. Spelman. (517) inter manus utrasque domini sui; the tenant ought to put both his hands between both the hands of his lord. Bract. fol. 80. Potest quis esse tenens meus reddendo mihi redditum; a man may be my tenant by rendering to me a rent. Id. fol. 169. (518) communem feudi naturam ac rationem, in contractu interposita; tenor is an agreement, contrary to the common nature and reason of a fee, interposed or inserted in the contract [by which it is conveyed.] Hotoman de Verb. Feud. voc. Tenor feud. Tenor est qui legem dat feodo. It is the tenor [express terms of the feudal donation] which gives law to the fee. 2 Bl. Com. 310. Wright on Ten. 35, 21, 152. It is the tenor of the feudal grant which regulates its effect and extent. Broom's Μαх. 304, [346.] The declaration by the lord from whom the feud or fee moved, of the continuance or quantity of estate which he meant to confer, governed the fee. 2 Bl. Com. 310. Tenor est qui dat legem feudo, et plerumque naturam feudi mutat; it is the tenure which gives law to the fee, and for the most part changes the nature of the fee. Crag. de Jur. Feud. 50. Zasius in Us. Feud. fol. 123. Wright on Tenures, 21, note.