TENDER 



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TENIERS 



tenant's title, while the latter may not sub- 

 lease the property or any part of it without 

 the consent of the landlord. The tenant is 

 usually responsible for repairs made necessary 

 by the misuse of the premises, but specific 

 agreements in regard to repairs are usually in- 

 cluded in the lease. If the buildings are ren- 

 dered untenantable by fire the landlord may 

 terminate the lease, or- if he does not make 

 repairs within thirty days the lease ceases to 

 be binding. 



If the tenant fails to pay the stipulated 

 rent or does not keep other terms of the lease, 

 the landlord or his representatives may termi- 

 nate the lease and may legally enter the prem- 

 ises, expel the tenant and remove his goods. 

 The lessor also has a lien upon the household 

 goods of/ the tenant as security for rent. He 

 may sue for any rent that may be due by the 

 terms of the lease, and the tenant is responsible 

 fer the attorney's fees and other costs. The 

 heirs, successors or administrators of both ten- 

 ant and landlord are bound by the terms of the 

 lease. 



A tenant at mil is one who occupies property 

 for an indefinite period, which may be ended 

 at any time desired by either landlord or ten- 

 ant. The latter is entitled to a notice of re- 

 moval, generally sixty days before the day end- 

 ing the term of occupancy. If he has growing 

 crops on the rented land, he may enter later 

 and gather them. 



A tenant at suffrance is one who occupies 

 property without the expressed consent of the 

 owner or after his term of ppssession has ex- 

 pired. He may be ejected at any time by the 

 landlord. 



Related Subjects. The reader is referred to 

 the following articles in these volumes : 



Contract 

 Law 



Lease 

 Real Estate 



TEN'DER, a term in law relating to pay- 

 ment of debt. See LEGAL TENDER. 



TENDONS, ten'dunz, or SINEWS, sin'uze, 

 strong, fibrous cords which attach the muscles 

 to the bones. They may be round, or long and 

 flat, and are composed of close, tough, parallel 

 fibers. The tapering end of each muscle merges 

 directly into one end of a tendon, the other 

 end of which is attached to the bone in a dis- 

 tinct groove in the bone substance. At this 

 extremity, too, the tendons are firmly imbedded 

 in the periosteum, or protective sheath which 

 encases the bones. It is by means of the ten- 

 dons that the movements of the muscles are 

 transmitted to the bones. See MUSCLES. 



TEN'EMENT, a name applied to any house 

 constructed for the occupancy of two or more 

 families, the legal definition as to the number 

 of families varying somewhat in different cities. 

 The word is derived from the Latin tenemen- 

 tum, meaning a holding, and as popularly 

 (though not legally) considered is restricted to 

 houses occupied by the poorer classes of city 

 dwellers. All large municipalities are con- 

 fronted by the tenement-house problem; the 

 movement to better housing conditions is en- 

 gaging the attention of city governments and 

 social workers everywhere. 



Tenement -House Regulation. The chief sub- 

 jects of tenement-house regulation are light and 

 ventilation, protection against fire, water sup- 

 ply, sanitary standards and overcrowding. Be- 

 cause of laxity in regard to building regula- 

 tions, many cities have permitted certain sec- 

 tions to decline into so-called slum districts. 

 Old houses in such districts, from which the 

 better classes have withdrawn, have been con- 

 verted into tenements, and new ones have been 

 erected with no regard for the health and safety 

 of the occupants. Large families are crowded 

 into small, dark, ill-smelling rooms, which be- 

 come centers not only of disease but of crime. 

 A deplorable number of young people and chil- 

 dren learn vicious habits in such homes because 

 there is no adequate provision for privacy, 

 while lack of light, air and sanitation lowers the 

 health standards, brings about epidemics and 

 causes an excessive death rate among babies. 



Such conditions as these, which Jacob A. Riis 

 describes so graphically in his How the Other 

 Half Lives, are responsible for the movement 

 to better the lot of the tenement people. In 

 New York City the problem has been attacked 

 by the state legislature, but usually building 

 and housing regulations are passed by city 

 ordinances. The remedies include the tearing 

 down or improvement of existing tenements, 

 and the building of new ones according to speci- 

 fied rules. Health boards, sanitary inspectors, 

 building commissions and the like are appointed 

 to see that the laws are obeyed. 



Consult "Slums of the Great Cities," in Seventh 

 Annual Report of the United States Commis- 

 sioner of Labor ; "Improved Housing," in Bulletin 

 No. 6 of the New York School of Philanthropy. 



TENERIFFE, tenerij', the largest of the 

 Canary .Islands (which see). 



TENIERS, in English, ten'yerz, the family 

 name of two noted Flemish painters, father 

 and son, both of whom excelled in the portrayal 

 of scenes from everyday life. 



