Tenant Right
a term specifically the operation of law, as the widow's estate in dower, and the husband's estate by courtesy on the death of his wife. of tenure in the same occupant without liability to any other increase of rent than may be sanctioned by the general TENCIN years' rent on its being transferred to another tenant; the tenant having also a claim to the value of permanent improvepurchase money amounting to so many another tenant; the tenant having also a years' rent on its being transferred to claim to the value of permanent improvements effected by him. In course of time the advantages of tenant right granted to the Ulster farmers were claimed by the farmers in the other provinces of Ireland, and the custom spread to a considerable extent. At last, under the management of Gladstone and Bright, the Landlord and Tenant Act of 1870 was passed. By it the Ulster tenant right and other corresponding customs received the force of law, and the outgoact contained other provisions giving tion from the proprietor to an amount act contained other provisions giving varying according to circumstances. The compensation for improvements, but as it did not succeed in doing away with all grievances a fresh bill was prepared and Act, 1881, which established a land compassed under the name of the Land Law mission to revise rents, and to fix them for 15 years. This measure has been amended by subsequent acts. acquired by Great Britain after the war in 1825; the S. division of Burma; is a long narrow strip between the sea and the mountains of the Siamese frontier; There are seven districts the towns of area, 46,590 square miles; pop. 980,000. wen, Amherst, Tavoy, and Mergui; the Maulmain, Taung-ngu, Schwe-gyin, Sal chief towns being Maulmain, Taung-ngu, and Tavoy. The town of Tenasserim, which has, through wars and other misfortunes, sunk to be a village of only 577 inhabitants, is 33 miles from the seat at the junction of the Great and Little Tenasserim rivers, the former of which has a total course of about 400 miles.