disturbance of tenure

disturbance of tenure
The breaking of the relation which subsisted between a lord and his tenant. To have an estate well tenanted was an advantage to every landlord and the driving away of a tenant from his estate was a considerable injury for the redress of which an action on the case lay at common law. See 3 Bl Comm 242.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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