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The possession, therefore, of these two rights by the king, is equivalent to the tenure of absolute power.
He had proposed to make that feat the boast and the crowning point of his tenure of office.
Among other important reforms he destroyed the old distinction between land tenures, and made transfers simple.
In the cases of officers and servants of the crown, tenure varies with the nature of the office.
While the tenure and identity of a head man is thus somewhat vague, his functions are rather definite.
Frail tenure, on which human life and genius are lent us for a while to improve or to enjoy!
Asked Kennedy with a twinkle in his eye at O'Connor's estimate of the security of his tenure of office.
In the establishment of these tenures, William only copied the practice which was now become very general.
The aristocracy, of which Colonel Byrd was a shining light, nevertheless held by a somewhat precarious tenure.
He was especially qualified to perform such a function owing to his long tenure of the office of Surrogate.
Many little incidents connected with her father's tenure of office were a source of amusement to Bessie throughout life.
The chief seized the land and allowed the former owners to cultivate it under a subject tenure.
He was indifferent how the Executive should be chosen, provided he held his place by this tenure.
When all is determined, I shall possess this house, by whatsoever tenure, without friendship or domestic society.
It was undoubtedly an ancient office in each Latin tribe, peculiar in character and held by an elective tenure.
Whether we have actually prolonged Lenin's tenure of office and Trotsky's reign in power we cannot of course know.
The office of a member of the Cabinet affords an illustration of that rare tenure, a tenant at will.
Better governors have been selected, and they have been cautioned that their tenure of office depends upon their behavior.
In other words, it was made a part of the services incidental to the feudal tenure of particular estates.
The flower that opens slowly, the face grown dear through half of life, needs no tenure in memory.
The tenure of his mother's Throne, and great men's fame Sat like a sparkling jewel on his brow.
The two Democrats went further, and declared that Governor Kellogg himself held by no rightful tenure.
The many extremely fine charters of this period are of great value for the questions concerning land tenure.
Like his predecessor, he held the living a long time, the tenure of the two covering a century.
Subject to this provision the terms and conditions of his tenure of office shall be fixed by law.
Persons holding lands by military tenure were allowed to dispose of two-thirds in their wills, as they pleased.
The race was so intellectual, that a feudal or military tenure could not last longer than the war.
From time out of mind, some feudal custom of tenure by the rose had been handed down in our family.
All other forms of tenure are properly classed as modifications of private ownership, rather than as distinct systems.
The Conservative party was found, moreover, to have gained vastly in prestige by its short tenure of power.
For it must be understood that the main revolt is a revolt against the system of land tenure.
I think she would like to branch out and do some entertaining during their short and uncertain tenure.
Unfortunately for this simple solution, there was a great and fundamental difference between these two tenures.
No one will deny but that the tenants had a very uncomfortable and insecure tenure of the premises.
Their tenure was but for a year, and of course they made the most of their brief authority.
That is why the horseback military service came to be linked with the feudal method of land tenure.
The conditions of employment, the want of security of tenure, are very much what they were in 1867.
Every one knows their peculiar tenure of that manor which carries with it the right of the Championship.
The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.
Eben knew too well the conditions of his life's tenure, to refuse to do anything Stair Garland bade him.
In mature age, if we have fulfilled the conditions of our tenure, we feel that we must live for our children.
Some favored a two-year tenure, some four years, some six, some nine, while Alexander Hamilton favored a life tenure.
Both held land exempt from villain services, which was a condition of tenure introduced by the Danes.
After some hesitations, the question was submitted to the nation whether his tenure of office should be for life.
The tenures on which property was built and held are curiously set forth in these strange directions.
The old anxiety as to her precarious tenure of her present quarters put on again all its familiar terrors.
The tenure of property is not always held, nor is it transmitted, according to legislative enactments or judicial law.
True, there are some natures for whom the tenure of faith is less arduous than it is for others.
To-day there is no country in the world in which cultivation and security of tenure are so widely divorced.
She was representing Margaret Haley, who had been put on the committee for salaries, tenure and pensions.
It had been well known for more than a year that Elizabeth's life was held at a moment's tenure.
The demeanor of the judges to the bar is inevitably affected to some extent by their tenure of office.
Within less than seventy years, this artificial system was abolished by a more simple and solid tenure.
The legal result is the introduction of an elaborate system of customs, tenures, rights, duties, profits, and jurisdictions.
A country of tenures so mixed, of theories so diverse, could scarcely have been called a land of common government.
His suffering was terrible, and for days life's uncertain tenure seemed ready to release her hold on time.
The distinction of their careers coincides with their tenure of subordinate positions in the organisms of great fleets.
Since that time I hold my life, fortune and honor by the feeble tenure of Don Carlo's silence.
Arms derived from Tenure and Office are a much more interesting, though less numerous, class than the preceding.
They mean that custom and authority have less influence and that class distinctions based upon tenure are weakened.
These secretaries being changed very often of late years, renders the tenure of office very uncertain, very precarious.
To combine these influences was one of the conditions of any prolonged tenure of office by the Liberal party.
"No, to me," Dagmar objected as with a desperation born of an insecure tenure she clutched his other arm.
Was this triumph due to the weakness of tribal government and the superior value of the feudal land tenure?
The tenure of the lords was not looked upon in the light of private property in its strict sense.
The tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands on condition of praying for the soul of the donor.
The anguish, the emotion, too great to bear had suddenly snapped asunder one of those little tenures of life.
Their lands they held by the first of all tenures, that of defending them with their lives.
Such conditions you can only meet by making the judicial tenure of office ephemeral, as all legislative tenure is ephemeral.
There remained the land, an immense source of potential wealth, if properly developed under a rational system of agrarian tenure.
Did the act of March 2, 1867, commonly known as the "tenure of office act," confer this authority?
Tenure was there less precarious, less dependent on the landlord's pleasure; men were freer, work had more rights.
In general, he believed in laying down certain principles on the tenure of office and in standing resolutely by them.
In the whole of Jocelyn's tenure of the estate the only stable period had been that of his bourgeois marriage.
Such a teacher should be a real community leader in every way, and his tenure of service should be permanent.
Not having received any profit from the previous tenure of cottages, he suffers no loss if the tenure be varied.
His tenure of office, indeed, may be said to mark an important epoch in the educational history of this Province.
Only on justice can you build with a permanent foundation, and there is no justice in our tenure of Gibraltar.
Such were many of the proposals regarding land tenure, and all of those concerning co-operative enterprises and monopoly.
This division seems to show that the different tenure of these provinces was still understood and acted on.
It was not till many trials had been made that a satisfactory regulation of the tenure of office was reached.
Such a man can not serve a cause of any kind well on an uncertain or limited tenure of office.
Ministers were become such precarious tenures, that scarce any man would list in them under places for life.
Their tenure of office was for life, and they were responsible to no one in the discharge of their duties.
He accompanied her up the hill, explaining to her the details of his forthcoming tenure of the other farm.
Any explanation of the permanent tenure of our Federal judges "as the result of this pre-revolutionary contest" is insufficient.
The power of the Doges it seems, was an absolute power for a time, yet was of uncertain tenure.
The customary tenure of one part of the country differs very much from the customary tenure of another part.
The nobles, holding their lands by tenure of military service, bore no part of the public burdens during peace.
The first was the interference of the Archbishop as Visitor, to determine the conditions of the tenure of Fellowships.
Consequently, this Parliament set itself to regulate the confused system of military tenure by the simple expedient of abolition.
He finds it difficult, if not impossible, to reconcile his sense of justice with any other form of tenure.
Sulla and Caesar, however, revived the office, but changed its tenure, the latter holding it for life.
The Upper Houses could be made hereditary; though the actual tenure was never more than for life during good behavior.
No man shall be obliged to perform more service for his fee than he is bound to by his tenure.
The power to hold is measured by the power to use; hence the weak tenure of hunting and pastoral tribes.
This was done through the passage of a bill, over the president's veto, known as the Tenure of Office Act.
Instantly the party fails to make good, they throw it out independent of the length of its tenure of office.
The tenure of the house may be brief, depending, as it does, upon a suspicion of danger or even on a dream.
Others desired that the judges should hold office for brief terms instead of the old tenure for life.