Tenant-right is a term in the
common law system expressing the right to compensation which a tenant has, either by custom or by law, against his landlord for improvements at the termination of his tenancy.In
England, it is governed for the most part by the Agricultural Holdings Acts and the Allotments and Small Holdings Acts. In
Ireland, tenant-right was a custom, prevailing particularly in
Ulster, by which the tenant acquired a right not to have his rent raised arbitrarily at the expiration of his term. This resulted in Ulster in considerable fixity of tenure and, in case of a desire on the part of the tenant to sell his
farm, made the tenant-right of considerable capital value, amounting often to many years' rent.
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Eng. law. In leases from the crown, corporations or the church, it is usual to grant a further term to the old tenants in preference to strangers, and, as this expectation is seldom disappointed, such tenants are considered as baying an ulterior interest beyond their subsisting term; and this interest is called the tenant right.
This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.
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