Landlord
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
In modern usage, signifies one who, being the owner of a superior estate in realty, leases or lets it to another, in consideration of a rent or service reserved. • When the absolute property in or feesimple of the land belongs to a landlord, he is then sometimes denominated the ground landlord, in contradistinction to such an one as is possessed only of a limited or particular interest in land, and who himself holds under a superior landlord.
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