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* TEMTJCO. 122 TENDAI-SHTJ. TEMTJCO, ta-iiii3ok1<6. The capital town of the pioviiioe of Cautin, Chile, 140 miles southeast of the port of Concepcion, with which it has rail- way comiimnieation, on the north bank of the river Cautin (ilap: Chile, C 11). The town has tanneries and breweries and carries on an im- portant trade with the Arucanians of the vicinity. Its population in 1895 was 7078. TENAILLE, te n."il'. See Fortification. TENANCY AT SUFFERANCE (OF. ten- aiicc, from ML. Icnnntia, a holding, retaining, from Lat. lencre, to hold, retain; connecteil with Cik. Telvciv, tcincin, Skt. Ian, Goth, uf-panjan, AS. pciiidii, OHG. dcncn, dennen, Ger. dehncn, to stretch out). A continued but wrongful occu- pation of land by a tenant whose original pos- session was with the consent, of the o^^'ner, after his term has expired and without permission of the landlord. By the common law. the landlord may enter at any time and forcibly eject him, and he cannot maintain an action against the landlord for assault and battery, it the latter ex- pels him from the premises without using un- necessary force or violence. He may be sued for use and occupation, but not for rent. See Ten- ancy AT Will. Consult the authorities referred to under Landlobi> and Tenant. TENANCY AT WILL. An occupation of land by a person under a demise or agreement with tile landlord that the tenancy shall not be for a fixed term, but shall be determinable at the will or caprice of either party. By the com- mon law, a tenant at will could not assign or convey his estate, and was obliged to pay rent only for the time he remained in actual occupa- tion. A tenant at will is entitled to notice to quit, and in the absence of statute this notice should generally be given for a time equal to the period between two rent days, in advance of the date set for removal. Where such a tenant receives notice to quit and has growing crops at the time, he is entitled to enter later and gather them, and he must always be given a reasonable time in which to remove. See Tenancy at Sufferance. TENANCY IN COMMON. See Common, Tenancy in ; .Joint Ownership. j TENANT FOR LIFE. See Life Estate. | TENANT RIGHT. In English law a cus- tom which is recognized in some districts in Ire- land, under which a tenant is conceded the right to continue to occupy land upon which he has made improvements, practically indefinitely without the payment of an increased rent. By the 'Land Act' of 1870 the custom was recog- nized. Sec Landlord and Tenant. TENAS'SERIM. The southernmost division of Lower Burma ( see Burma ), bordering on Siam, and comprising the districts of Salwin, Amherst, Tavoy, Tliaton, Toungu, and Mergui (Map: Burma, C 4). Tenasserim is a narrow strip of coast about 500 miles long, with a vary- ing breadth of from 40 to 80 miles, extending from the Pakchan River northward to the Sal- win. Area. 36,080 square miles. Population, in 1891, 912,051; in 1901, 1,137,776. The chief town is Mauhnain. TEN BRINK. See Brine:. TENCH (OF. tenche, Fr. tanche, from ML. tenca, Lat. tinea, tench), A small European eyprinoid carp-like fish {Tinea vulgaris), an in- habitant of ponds and stagnant waters. It is deep j'ellowish brown and usually about a foot long. Its flesh is poor. See Plate of Carps and Allies. TENCIN, tiiN'saN', Claudine Alexandrine Gu£rin de (1681-1749). A French novelist, prominent in the literary society of the Regency. She was born at Cirenoble, and was placed in the Convent of Montfleury as a novice, whence a sympathetic Lothario rescued her from seclusion. She next appeared at Paris as an unscrupulous friend of Cardinal Dubois (1714), gathering about her a crowd of admirers, among them Fontenelle, Law, and the Regent. With the death of the Regent Orleans (1723) her influ- ence waned. In 1726 she suffered a brief im- prisonment in the Bastille because a desperate lover had killed himself in her house. Later her reimtation revived ; she became decorous and popular with the now also aging 'pets of the menagerie' of her youth, among them Duclos, Lamotte, Marivaux, Marmontel, Montesquieu. She wrote three novels, all mingling history with fiction: Les memoires du comte de Comminges ( 1735) ; Le siege de Calais ( 1739) ; and Les mal- heurs de I'amour ( 1747 ), the last a bit of psychic autobiography. The strength of all these tales lies in their scenes of dread and gloom, some of which were then unrivaled in French fiction. Her nearest literary analogue is Madame de La- fayette (q.v. ). Tenein was mother, through one of her many illicit connections, of D'Alembert (q.v.). Her correspondence with lier brother. Cardinal de Tenein (1680-1758), appeared in Paris in 1780, that with the Duke de Richelieu in 1806. Alleged Memoires secrets were pub- lished by Barthelemy (Grenoble, 1790). Tencin'g (Eiivres, with those of Madame de Fontaines, were published by Garnier (Paris, 1864). TEN COMMANDMENTS. See Decalogue. TENDA, ten'da. Col di. A pass over the Maritime Alps in Italy near the French boundary, and 25 miles from the Mediterranean coast (Map: Italy, B 3). Its altitude is 6145 feet, and it carries the railroad from Cuneo to Venti- niiglia. The carriage road from Cuneo to Nice passes here through a tunnel nearly two miles long and lighted by electricity. TENDAI-SHU, ten-di'shoo' (Chin. T'ien-tai Tsung, name of a mountain in China where the founder of the sect studied ) . A sect of Japanese Buddhists, established toward the end of the eighth century by a. Japanese priest named Den- g3'0 Daislii. Like all Japanese sects, it is of the Northern School, and is based upon the Sad- dharma Pundarika, or 'Lotus of the Good Law.' Salvation lies in the perception of the original and absolute Buddha, of whom the historic Buddha is one manifestation. The means of sal- vation are meditation and wisdom. It has an exoteric teaching for the vulgar, while its eso- teric doctrines are reserved for the monks, al- though the highest truths are recognized as trans- cending human comprehension. The sect is eclectic, and various Buddhas are worshiped in its temples. It completed the triumph of Bud- dhism in Japan by declaring that the Shinto deities are manifestations of Buddha. As it attempted in its teaching to reconcile contradic- tory doctrines, it gave rise to schism and became the mother of many sects. Its centre was on the