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▪ I. ˈsub-lease, n.
[f. sub- 9 (e).]
A lease granted by one who is a lessee or tenant, an underlease.
1826Bell Comm. Laws Scot. (ed. 5) I. 67 In assigning a sublease, intimation to the principal tenant is not sufficient. 1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 582 Both the sublease and assignation are completed by possession. 1913Times 7 Aug. 4/4 She had been the lessee, under a sub-lease, of the premises for something like eight years.
▪ II. sub-ˈlease, v.
[f. sub- 9 (b).]
trans. To sublet.
1828–43Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) I. 174 In giving leases of houses..he prohibited his tenants and vassals from subleasing them to any except Englishmen. 1885Law Times LXXIX. 233/1 A builder erects a row of cottages on the land subleased to him. 1898Tobias Freed, but not Free 39 All the convicts whom he does not work himself are sub-leased by him to other employers, who may desire cheap labour.
So sub-leˈssee, one who holds or receives a sub-lease; sub-ˈlessor, one who grants a sub-lease.
1882Ogilvie, Sub-lessee. 1884Law Times 9 Feb. 259/1 To indemnify the sublessor against breaches of all covenants in the head-lease. |