tenure
51Tenure of Office Act — (1867) Law forbidding the U.S. president to remove civil officers without the consent of the Senate. Passed by the Radical Republicans over the veto of Pres. Andrew Johnson, the measure sought to prevent Johnson from removing cabinet members who… …
52tenure by divine service — A land tenure in which the tenants were to perform some certain expressly defined and prescribed special divine service; such as to sing so many masses, to distribute a fixed sum in alms. After the Statute of Quia Emptores (1290) only the king… …
53tenure of schoolteacher — See tenure; tenure statutes …
54Tenure by free alms — Alms Alms ([add]mz), n. sing. & pl. [OE. almes, almesse, AS. [ae]lmysse, fr. L. eleemosyna, Gr. elehmosy nh mercy, charity, alms, fr. eleei^n to pity. Cf. {Almonry}, {Eleemosynary}.] Anything given gratuitously to relieve the poor, as money, food …
55tenure-track — adjective Date: 1976 relating to or being a teaching position that may lead to a grant of tenure …
56tenure-track — adj. Tenure track is used with these nouns: ↑faculty …
57tenure track — noun chiefly N. Amer. an employment structure whereby the holder of a post is guaranteed consideration for eventual tenure …
58tenure by free alms — Same as tenure in frankalmoign …
59tenure in ancient demesne — A tenure embracing all those lands or manors, which, though subsequently granted out to private subjects, were actually in the hands of the crown in the time of Edward the Confessor, or William the Conqueror, and are recorded as so being in the… …
60tenure in burgage — See burgage tenure …