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Subtenant

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

An under tenant. SUBTRACTION (Lat. sub, away, traho, to draw). The act of withholding or detaining anything unlawfully., In French law. The act of taking something fraudulently. It is generally applied to the taking of the goods of the estate of a deceased person fraudulently.

See Expilation.