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Lessee   /lɛsˈi/   Listen
Lessee

noun
1.
A tenant who holds a lease.  Synonym: leaseholder.






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"Lessee" Quotes from Famous Books



... Roland for an Oliver, A good Night's Rest, and Deaf as a Post. This kind of voluntary hard labor used to be my great delight. The furor has come strong upon me again, and I begin to be once more of opinion that nature intended me for the lessee of a national theatre, and that pen, ink, and paper have ...
— Yesterdays with Authors • James T. Fields

... resists judgment in the case of Martin v. Hunter's Lessee, 336; attacks the federal ...
— Union and Democracy • Allen Johnson

... When the lessee of a dwelling house is convicted of keeping the same as a house of ill-fame, the lease or contract for letting such house is, at the option of the lessor, void, and such lessor may thereupon have the like remedy to secure possession as against a tenant holding over after ...
— Legal Status Of Women In Iowa • Jennie Lansley Wilson

... leave my properties in Strassburg! This ex-waiter, ex-innkeeper and lessee of disreputable dance halls, this idiot, this imbecile who succeeded me, didn't happen to want my stuff. No, I didn't leave my collection of properties there, but what I did have to leave there was forty thousand crowns of hard-earned money left me from ...
— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume II • Gerhart Hauptmann

... and those among whom the lands are not parcelled out, but the profits divided as among copartners of an estate held jointly. They, in either case, nominate one of their members to collect and pay the Government demand; or Government appoints a man for this duty, either as a salaried servant or a lessee, with authority to levy from the cultivating proprietors a certain sum over and above ...
— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman


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