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Use and occupation

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

This is the name of an action, being a variety of assumpsit, to be maintained by a landlord against one who has had the occupation and enjoyment of an estate, under a contract to pay therefor, express or implied, bnt not under such a lease as would support an action specifically for rent