tenant-right
31sitting tenant — noun The tenant currently occupying a property • • • Main Entry: ↑sit * * * sitting tenant UK US noun [countable] [singular sitting tenant plural sitting tenants …
32statutory right to repair — Business Tenancies may qualify for a degree of security of tenure under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954. The tenant has the right to apply for a new tenancy at the end of his existing lease and can apply to the High Court to impose a new lease… …
33landlord and tenant — Parties to the leasing of real estate, whose relationship is bound by contract. The landlord, or lessor, is the owner; the tenant, or lessee, supplies payment in order to enjoy possession and use of the property for a specified period. Important… …
34sitting tenant — ➔ tenant * * * sitting tenant UK US noun [C] LAW, PROPERTY ► someone with the legal right to remain in a property that they are renting and who cannot be forced to leave by its owner: »It is possible to sell a property with a sitting tenant… …
35statutory tenant — ➔ tenant * * * statutory tenant UK US noun [C] LAW, PROPERTY ► someone who rents a property and has the legal right to stay there even after their tenancy agreement has ended: »The rules for succession after the death of a statutory tenant have… …
36landlord and tenant — The parties to a lease The landlord grants the lease to the tenant. The landlord may be the freehold owner of the land or may be a tenant of a superior landlord (see head lease). The law of landlord and tenant is that governing the creation,… …
37life tenant — noun a tenant whose legal right to retain possession of buildings or lands lasts as long as they (or some other person) live (Freq. 1) • Hypernyms: ↑tenant * * * noun : a tenant having possession (as of property) for the duration of his life… …
38sitting tenant — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms sitting tenant : singular sitting tenant plural sitting tenants British someone who pays rent to live in a house or flat and has the legal right to stay there …
39sitting tenant — sitting tenants N COUNT A sitting tenant is a person who rents a house or flat as their home and has a legal right to live there. [BRIT] 1.4 million council homes have been sold, mostly to sitting tenants …
40chief, tenant in — In English feudal law, all the land in the kingdom was supposed to be holden mediately or immediately of the king, who was styled the Lord Paramount, or Lord Above All; and those that held immediately under him, in right of his crown and dignity …
