Slender indeed was the tenure upon which we now held our lives!
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot
The tendency, in short, is towards the break-up of the communal tenure, and instead of the Russian Commune invading Europe, as Cavour once said there was fear it would do, we are likely to see the individual tenure of Western Europe invading Russia and superseding primitive rural institutions in that country, as it has already superseded them in others.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
But as soon as population has increased so much as to compel recourse to inferior soils for its subsistence, it becomes the duty of society to see that the most productive use possible is being made of its land, and to introduce such a mode of tenure as seems most likely effectually to secure that end.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae