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Definition of Landlord

1. Noun. A landowner who leases to others.

Definition of Landlord

1. n. The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants.

Definition of Landlord

1. Noun. a person who owns and rents land such as a house, apartment, or condo. ¹

2. Noun. (chiefly British) the owner or manager of a public house ¹

3. Noun. (surfing slang with “the”) A shark, imagined as the owner of the surf to be avoided. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Landlord

1. one who owns and rents out real estate [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Landlord

Literary usage of Landlord

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"landlord and tenant «==167(8), 169(4)— landlord conclusively presumed to have knowledge of defective construction; landlord entitled to notice to render him ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"The Illinois Statute confers upon the landlord a lien upon the crops growing ... Prior to the levy of a distress warrant by the landlord, he has no Hen on ..."

3. The Law Reports by James Redfoord Bulwer (1872)
"8.12 : " Where the right of killing the game opon any land is by this Act given to any lessor or landlord, in exclusion of the right of the occupier of such ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer and by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Roger Meeson, William Newland Welsby, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1849)
"I. RELATION BETWEEN landlord AND TENANT. There is no Obligation to Repair in the landlord.]—1. Where the tenant of a house undertakes by his agreement to ..."

5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"It is competent to the landlord to use the names of the heirs of his deceased ... The attorney of the decedent, who was aleo his landlord, and who had ..."

6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"296, to shew that there is no privity of contract between the landlord and sub-tenant, and that the one cannot give notice to quit to the other. ..."

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