1820 R. Bell Treat. Leases (ed. 3) v. 297 The landlord will be entitled to draw the sub-rent in payment of the rent due to him by the principal tacksman.

1826 G. J. Bell Comm. Laws Scotl. i. 67 Possession of the subrents.

1903 Sc. Law Reporter 40 593/2 They having sub-let a cellar beneath a part of it to a Mrs M'Call at a sub-rent of £100.

1940 Columbia Law Rev. 40 1055 Where the subrents have been paid and are in the hands of T, L must sue for them there.

2007 P. Wyatt Prop. Valuation in Econ. Context iii. 143 The profit rent will grow at a faster rate than the market-based sub-rent.

1788 in Minutes Trial Warren Hastings (1795) VI. 2619 The Zemindars to whom the Government's Farmer has subrented the Tuppah.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. v. 189 The effects of this unjust system were considerably augmented by the custom..of sub-renting their lands to farmers.

1893 Southwestern Reporter 22 127/2 A tenant could, unless otherwise stipulated in the contract with his landlord, subrent the premises.

1902 R. Bagot Donna Diana ii. 13 An apartment he had sub-rented from a wealthy American widow.

1936 A. F. Raper Pref. to Peasantry vi. 98 The land would not uncommonly be sold to some particularly successful white tenant who had been renting the entire place and subrenting portions of it.

2009 K. Caskie Most Wicked of Sins 319 Cheatlin even sub-rented the house to Lady Ivy.