tenant
Definition
Entity that (1) occupies or possesses a property by any type of claim, right, or title, or (2) pays periodic rent for a temporary right to occupy, possess, and/or use a property; the right having been granted by the property owner (landlord) through a lease or tenancy agreement.
tenant is in the Corporate, Commercial, & General Law and Real Estate & Buildings subjects.
tenant appears in the definitions of the following terms:
sublease,
life estate,
true lease,
tenancy,
demising wall,
privity of estate,
tenant's usable square feet,
landlord's lien,
contingent rent,
right of survivorship
and
tenant appears in the other terms: holdover tenant, tenant's rentable square feet, tenant improvements (TI), life tenant, tenant for life, tenant at will, anchor tenant, ancillary tenants, tenant at sufferance
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