noun

definition

One who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others.

synonyms

definition

One who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership.

definition

Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.

verb

definition

To hold as, or be, a tenant.

definition

To inhabit.

Examples of tenant in a Sentence

If the tenant paid his rent, the landlord could not forbid subletting.

Someone else was asking about her favorite tenant, Mr. Cleary.

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.

Improvement contracts are granted for uncultivated bush districts, where one fourth of the produce goes to the landlord, and for plantations of fig-trees, olive-trees and vines, half of the produce of which belongs to the landlord, who at the end of ten years reimburses the tenant for a part of the improvements effected.

The contract generally' specified that the house was in good repair, and the tenant was bound to keep it so.

It is the tenant who has to pay for budget overruns.

Accordingly in 1290 a statute was passed, Quia emptores, which allowed the tenant to alienate whenever he pleased, but the alienee or person to whom he granted was to hold the land not of the alienor but of the same immediate lord, and by the same services as the alienor held it before.

However, a tenant could sue the landlord for negligence if there was a dangerous item on the property.

The tenant agrees to surrender this lease in return for a new fifteen year lease at £ 150,000 per annum.

For example, a tenant is granted a 21-year lease at a rack rent of £ 200,000 plus VAT per annum.

A tenant or a small farmer might have a leasehold or a freehold worth several hundred pounds.

Tenants will be advised of a private locksmith who will charge the tenant directly for this service.

Langford was still tenant in 1544, when the Crown sold the messuage to George Bacon and George Baron.

In April 1889 Laura Rackham sold the mill to the mill's tenant miller, Edward Woodrow.

No interest is paid to either the Landlord or Tenant on deposit monies held.

The question of the distribution of water, rightly considered, resolves itself into a question of delivering water to the water tenant, without leakage on the way, and of securing that the fittings employed by the water tenant shall be such as to afford an ample and ready supply at all times of the day and night without leakage and without any unnecessary facilities for waste.

By continued user of the same land for some years and discharge of the public obligations in respect of it in addition to the ciss or payment as tenant, a ceile became a subowner or permanent tenant and could not be evicted.

By De Donis the tenant for life was prevented from selling his estate, which could only pass to his lawful heir; if he had none, it fell back to his feudal superior.

The marrorial system was already doomed, and the rent-paying tenant farmers, who had begun to appear after the Black Death, gradually superseded the villeins as the normal type of peasantry during the two generations that followed the outbreak that is generally known as Wat Tylers rebellion.

Large and radical as the measure was, reversing many of the accepted principles of legislation by giving the tenant a quasi-partnership with the landlord in his holding, no serious opposition was made to it in either House of Parliament.

The land act of 1870 had given the tenant no security in the case of eviction for non-payment of rent; and the tenant whose rent was too high or had been raised was at the mercy of his landlord.

If the tenant requires to cancel a reservation for any reason he must notify the proprietors by telephone and confirm it in writing.

At households containing private renters, an additional interview is carried out with the tenant or partner in each tenancy group in the household.

No, the landlord may not repossess the house without a court order unless the tenant has surrendered the tenancy.

She also informed the DMC that this year they were proposing to invite tenant representatives to a seminar with appointed surveyors.

This enabled Family HA to measure tenant satisfaction from the first month of the project.

Another tenant in a neighboring Tower Block had squatters break in, twice, next door to her and her young daughter.

Following our approval the tenant and proposed subtenant must agree a written contract to establish the sublet.

At the discretion of Philip Hodges the tenant may be asked to provide a surety for the rent.

This situation requires tact - you cannot instruct the tenant to get a gas oven.

If there are no problems during a demoted tenancy, you become an assured tenant.

Landlord of a tenant, who has an assured tenancy, grants a new one.

An assured tenant pays an assured rent, set every year by CDS.

The hypothetical tenant in an ability to pay scenario is likely to have no profit motive.

You have a succession right whether you are a secure tenant or an assured tenant.

The outgoing tenant will want his name removed to ensure that he is no longer liable for the rent!

In his opinion the best plan would be to treat as owner the person immediately above the occupying tenant.

If you are an assured or a shorthold tenant, your landlord cannot evict without a Court Order.

This will increase the security of the nearly 1.5 million housing association tenant households.

These original tenants could then recruit petty tenant farmers to cultivate their lands or even sell their permanent tenancy rights.

Barker was still tenant in 1540, when the Crown granted the tenement to him rent free for life.

A tenant is not entitled to insist that he or she chooses the tradesman.

The Hall, an old modernized building, occupied by a tenant, stands on an eminence, commanding a richly varied prospect.

What was the purport of it but to make the tenant as liberal a fortune as the landlord, which I think if obtained would not have lasted long."

If the tenant paid his rent and left the land in good tilth, the landlord could not interfere nor forbid subletting.

The tenant, or steward, usually had other land of his own.

As affecting agricultural practice there were three noteworthy improvements in respect of the making of which, without the consent of or notice to his landlord, a tenant might claim compensation - (1) the consumption on the holding " by horses, other than those regularly employed on the holding," of corn, cake or other feeding-stuff not produced on the holding; (2) the "consumption on the holding by cattle, sheep, or pigs, or by horses other than those regularly employed on the holding, of corn proved by satisfactory evidence to have been produced and consumed on the holding "; (3) " laying down temporary pasture with clover, grass, lucerne, sainfoin or other seeds sown more than two years prior to the determination of the tenancy."

In Roman Law, the relationship of landlord and tenant arose from the contract of letting and hiring (locatio conductio), and existed also with special incidents, under the forms of tenure known as emphyteusis - the long lease of Roman law - and precarium, or tenancy at will (see Roman Law).

An assignment which creates the relationship of landlord and tenant between the lessor or lessee and the assignee, must be by deed, but the acceptance by a landlord of rent from a tenant under an invalid assignment may create an implied tenancy from year to year; and similarly payment of rent by a tenant may amount to an acknowledgment of his landlord's title.

There may also be a surrender, either voluntary or by operation of law, which will determine a tenancy, as, for example, when a tenant is party to some act, the validity of which he is legally estopped from denying and which would not have been valid had the tenancy continued to exist.

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