单词 | under-tenant |
释义 | under-tenantn. A tenant holding land or premises from another tenant; a subtenant. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > one who has tenure > [noun] > by subtenure subtenant1445 under-tenant1546 tenant paravail1579 underholder1605 arrière tenant1843 1546 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 185 Yf the undertenant be honest. 1582 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 422 Undertenants commonly called inmakes. 1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 276 To settle and secure the Vnder-Tennants; to the end, there might be a repose and establishment of euery Subiects Estate; Lord & Tenant. 1666 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 23 The said Henry and his undertenants had been in peaceable possession thereof for four yeares. 1704 London Gaz. No. 3990/4 The Manor of Lizard,..in the Possession of George Caning Esq., or his Under-Tenants. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. viii. 123 A third incident to estates for life relates to the under-tenants or lessees. 1809 M. Edgeworth Ennui v, in Tales Fashionable Life I. 104 These fellows..live in idleness, whilst they rack a parcel of wretched under-tenants. 1872 J. A. Froude Short Stud. (1878) II. 556 He had no intention that the under~tenant should be protected against himself. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1546 |
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