tenure
Let an agent handle land tenure by type, history and law, and separate employment or academic tenure, without legal advice on individual cases.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Type Which tenure.
Kind
Freehold, leasehold.
Kind
Tenure type.
- Which tenure type applies here? definition
- What rights does it give, in general terms? provenance
Security
Security of tenure.
Security
Security of tenure.
- How secure is this tenure against eviction? boundary
- Which law protects it? provenance
History Feudal tenures.
Feudal
Copyhold, villeinage.
Feudal
Feudal tenure.
- What did historical tenures such as copyhold involve, according to historians? provenance
- When were they abolished? provenance
Customary
Community rights.
Customary
Customary tenure.
- How are customary or communal rights recognised here? provenance
- Who administers them? provenance
Records Registry.
Registry
Title.
Registry
Registry records.
- What does the land registry record about tenure? provenance
- Are there unregistered rights? boundary
Advice
Lawyers.
Advice
Advice limit.
- Is the user asking about their own tenancy or land dispute? boundary
- How can they find legal aid or a lawyer? action
Senses Disambiguation.
Employment
Job tenure.
Employment
Employment sense.
- Is job or academic tenure meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Office
Term of office.
Office
Office sense.
- Is a term of office meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- noun.possession
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.ECO
- Facets: substance
- social
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- land tenure, copyhold, freehold, villeinage
What it is Filled
The right to hold property, especially land, and the terms on which it is held; historically part of hierarchical feudal systems with forms such as freehold, copyhold and villeinage, and today covering ownership, leasehold, customary and communal tenure.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent handle land tenure by type, history and law, and separate employment or academic tenure, without legal advice on individual cases.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Right to hold land
- Varies by legal system
- Historical and modern forms
- Linked to security of tenure
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Misstate a person's tenure, rights or obligations over land.
- Alter tenure records without lawful authority.
- Help displace occupants or communities from land without due process.
- Treat unregistered customary tenure as no tenure at all.
Only with a human decision
- Any transfer, lease or change of tenure.
- Resolving tenure disputes.
May
- Explain forms of tenure in a stated jurisdiction or historical period, citing sources.
- Look up recorded tenure in land registries the agent may query.
Moral aspects Filled
- Secure tenure underpins housing and livelihoods; its loss drives poverty.
- Historic tenure systems often entrenched inequality, which persists.
Who is affected
- Holders and occupiers
- Customary and Indigenous communities
- Tenants and lessees
Owners Filled
Steward
The holder of the tenure; land registries and courts record and decide it.
Master systems
- Land registry or cadastre
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-05184812-n - registry parent class
related
- property right - category
- land - object
- land registry - record
- tenure (employment) - another sense
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.tenure
- Open English WordNet: oewn-13263617-n
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Freehold, leasehold, customary tenure
- Historical terms such as copyhold and villeinage
- Academic tenure is a different sense
- Not physical; recorded in deeds, registers and customary arrangements.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain tenure types in general terms
- describe historical feudal tenures
- find land registry and tenure information
- separate other senses of tenure
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Insecure tenure and eviction
- Agents giving legal advice
- Ignoring customary rights
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- National land law
- FAO Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure
Context of use required Filled
- Defining who may use land and on what terms.
- freehold
- leasehold
- customary and communal tenure
- historical feudal tenures
- informal tenure
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-13263617-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: tenure - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Should tenure types be separate entries?
- How should historical tenures be linked?
- How should other senses be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-tenure/spec.json