kindly tenant

kindly tenant
noun
Scots law, obsolete : a tenant favored with a low or easy rent because his landlord wanted to favor him or believed him a descendant of an original possessor of the land

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kindly tenant noun (Scot hist)
A tenant whose family has held lands in succession, from father to son, for several generations
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