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A person who owns and rents land such as a house, apartment, or condo.
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The owner or manager of a public house.
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(with "the") A shark, imagined as the owner of the surf to be avoided.
Examples of landlord in a Sentence
He was sometimes known as the "Landlord of New York."
If the tenant paid his rent, the landlord could not forbid subletting.
Was it merely coincidence that her lease would be up next Friday and the landlord was raising the rent?
Rights which the landlord desires to retain over the lands let are excepted or reserved.
The relationship of landlord and tenant is created, altered and dissolved in the same way, and the rights and duties of parties are substantially identical.
The effect of this, craftily calculated beforehand, was to compel the peasants to rent pasture lands from the landlord at any price.
A landlord is not presumed to have undertaken to put the premises in repair, nor to execute repairs.
A breach of condition may, however, be waived by the landlord, and the legislature has made provision for the relief of the tenant from the consequences of such breaches in certain cases.
Bennigsen was a landlord in the Vilna province who appeared to be doing the honors of the district, but was in reality a good general, useful as an adviser and ready at hand to replace Barclay.
Under mezzadria or metateria the landlord divides the produce with the farmer in various proportions.
The landlord lets his land to two or more persons jointly, who undertake to restore it to him in good condition with one-third of it interrozzito, that is, fallow, so as to be cultivated the following year according to triennial rotation.
In the Baltic provinces they constitute the ennobled landlord class, and are the tradesmen and artisans in the towns.
Aberdeen was a model landlord.
It is probable that no great change had taken place in Scotland from the end of the i 5th century, except that tenants gradually became possessed of a little stock of their own, instead of having their farm stocked by the landlord.
Compensation was given to market gardeners for unexhausted improvements by the Market Gardeners' Compensation Act 1895 and by the Agricultural Holdings Act 1906 for improvements effected before the commencement of that act on a holding cultivated to the knowledge of the landlord as a market garden, if the landlord had not dissented in writing to the improvements.
If it is not more, though the commodity may be brought to market, it can afford no rent to the landlord.
It was barely evening but the darkening clouds and winter season begrimed the outside as black as a slum landlord's heart.
The landlord found land, labour, oxen for ploughing and working the wateringmachines, carting, threshing or other implements, seed corn, rations for the workmen and fodder for the cattle.
Land was leased for houses or other buildings to be built upon it, the tenant being rent-free for eight or ten years; after which the building came into the landlord's possession.
This change was, of course, popular among the lower and middle ranks of the landlord class, but was very displeasing to the great nobles.
But this aspect of the law, under which the landlord, other than the crown, is himself always a tenant, falls beyond the scope of the present article, which is restricted to those holdings that arise from the hiring and leasing of land.
The Distress for Rent Act 1737, however, enables a landlord to recover double rent from a tenant who holds over after having himself given notice to quit; while another statute in the reign of George II.
The decisions on the point are numerous and difficult to reconcile, but the main test is whether, on the true construction of the particular covenant, the lessee has undertaken to indemnify the landlord against payments of all kinds.
Only the question of the legal relations between landlord and tenant can be touched upon.
Rent is a monopoly price, equal, not to what the landlord could afford to take, but to what the farmer can afford to give.
In agriculture "Nature labours along with man," and not only the capital of the farmer is reproduced with his profits, but also the rent of the landlord.
The common form of land tenure is the colonia perpetua, by which the landlord grants a lease to the tenant and his heirs for ever, in return for a rent, payable in kind, and fixed at a certain proportion of the produce.
Such a tenant could not be expelled except for non-payment, bad culture or the transfer of his lease without the landlord's consent.
The portion of the olive crop due to the landlord, whether by colonia or ordinary lease, is paid, not according to the actual harvest, but in keeping with the estimates of valuators mutually appointed, who, just before the fruit is ripe, calculate how much each tree will probably yield.
The zamindar seemed a solvent person, capable of keeping a contract; and his official position as tax-collector was confused with the proprietary rights of an English landlord.
That in the same areas the State has not objected, and does not hesitate, to interfere by legislation to protect the interests of the tenants against oppression at the hands of the landlord.
The town was full of angry murmurs, and the landlord feared that the mob would storm his house and drag Spinoza out.
The price of the land, which was calculated on the basis of the value of the forced labour to which the landlord had been entitled, was about £1, 16s.
The landlord indeed had little choice, for his importance depended on the poll-book.
This inquiry proved, what few in Ireland doubted, that the prices paid for occupancy interest or tenant right increased as the landlord's rent was cut down.
The landlord thought the tenant should fork out for this; the understandably aggrieved tenant did not.
The costs deducted are expressly limited to those reasonably incurred by the landlord as a result of the breach.
God, if he existed at all, was an absentee landlord.
At the time of the Inquiry, the trustees were on the point of renewing the lease with their new landlord.
It has long been a criticism of property law that lessees only have a legal relationship with their landlord and not with other lessees.
She began asking Dron about the peasants' needs and what there was in Bogucharovo that belonged to the landlord.
While landlords typically have homeowners insurance to insure the actual dwelling, renters are generally not covered by the landlord's insurance policy for any damage done to personal belongings.
The allotments could be redeemed by them with the help of the crown, and then they were freed from all obligations to the landlord.
Tenancy is dissolved by the expiry of the term for which it was created, or by forfeiture of the tenant's interest on the ground of the breach of some condition by the tenant and re-entry by the landlord.
But, with the exceptions noted, the land in its improved condition passes over at common law to the landlord.
A tenant is not entitled, without the landlord's consent, to change the character of the subjects demised, and, except under an agricultural lease, he is bound to quit the premises on the expiration of the lease.
The crofter enjoys a perpetual tenure subject to the fulfilment of certain conditions as to payment of rent, non-assignment of tenancy, &c., and to defeasance at his own option on giving one year's notice to the landlord.
The Indian law of landlord and tenant is described in the article Indian Law.
But the landlord's interest and the general tone of feeling alike modified practice even before the intervention of legislation; they were habitually continued in their holdings, and came to possess in fact a perpetual and hereditary enjoyment of them.
The landlord received from his tenant (kmet) a fixed percentage, usually one third (tretina), of the annual produce; and, of the remaining two thirds, the cash equivalent of one tenth (desetina) went to the state.