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Subtenant

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

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."

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A lessee of a lessee of all or part of the premises or for the whole or a part of the term. See 86 Tex. 647, 26 S. W. 481.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

An under-tenant; one who leases all or a part of the rented premises from the original lessee for a term less than that held by the latter. Forrest v. Durnell, 86 Tex. 647, 26 S. W. 481.