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Definition of Sublease
1. Verb. Lease or rent all or part of (a leased or rented property) to another person. "We sublet our apartment over the summer"
2. Noun. A lease from one lessee to another.
Definition of Sublease
1. n. A lease by a tenant or lessee to another person; an underlease.
Definition of Sublease
1. Noun. A lease on something made by someone who already leases it. ¹
2. Verb. To lease something that is already leased; to sublet. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sublease
1. to sublet [v -LEASED, -LEASING, -LEASES] - See also: sublet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sublease
Literary usage of Sublease
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Landlord and Tenant: With an Appendix Containing by Robert Hunter, William Guthrie (1876)
"Meanwhile the granter had executed a conveyance, including his sublease, in favour
of trustees, for his creditors, who completed their right by possession ..."
2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... sublease, sublet. 2. In the sense of "to take a lease of": take (contextual);
... hire, rent, sublease. leash, n. Spec, cord, thong, slip, couple, lune, ..."
3. The Law Relating to Oil and Gas: Including Oil and Gas Leases and Contracts by William Wheeler Thornton (1904)
"sublease — liability of sublessee. A sublease is always less than the lease of
the sublessor; it is only a part of the lease. Or, in other words, ..."
4. The Massachusetts Law of Landlord and Tenant: Including the Cases in Vol by Prescott Farnsworth Hall (1922)
"Liability of parties under a sublease.309—A sublease creates a distinct tenancy
between the parties to it, and does not put the sublessee in the place of ..."
5. The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, James Cockcroft, Lucius Polk McGehee, Charles Porterfield (1904)
"sublease. — See the titles LANDLORD AND TENANT, vol. 18, p. ... 593, and especially
as to the distinction between an assignment and a sublease, p. ..."
6. A Treatise on Leases: Explaining the Nature, Form, and Effect of the by Robert Bell, William Bell (1825)
"The subject of the sublease.—It was formerly the opinion, that a tenant, although
empowered to subset, was not at liberty to grant a sublease of the whole ..."
7. Woodfall's Law of Landlord and Tenant by William Woodfall (1890)
"... default of payment, although the lessee had mortgaged the house by a sublease,
and executed a general assignment for the benefit of his creditors (A). ..."
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