a. [f. med.L. tenūra TENURE + -IAL.] Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of the tenure of land. Hence Tenurially adv., in respect of tenure.
1896. F. W. Maitland, in Eng. Hist. Rev., Jan., 18. The borough court is not founded on a tenurial or feudal principle. Ibid. The burgesses were a tenurially heterogeneous group. Ibid. (1898), Township & Borough, 69. The tenurial rent paid by tenant to lord becomes practically indistinguishable from the mere rent charge which implies no tenure. Ibid., 72. Because feudally, tenurially, the borough is patchwork.
1908. Spectator, 20 June, 978/1. All land-holding having become tenurial, the lord’s consent was necessary to each alienation.
