Landlord
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Heof whom lands or tenements are holden. He who, being the owner of an estate in land, has leased the same for a term of years, on a rent reserved, to anple of the land belongs to a landlord, he ts then sometimes denominated the “ground landlord,” in contradistinection to such a ons as is possessed only of a limited or particular interest in land, and who himself holds under a superior landlord.
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