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[ UK /lˈændlɔːd/ ]
[ US /ˈɫændˌɫɔɹd/ ]
NOUN
  1. a landowner who leases to others

How To Use landlord In A Sentence

  • Now that I think about it, direct property distraint was a recognized means of compelling welchers to fulfill their obligations in the quasi-anarchic Brehon laws of Celtic Ireland, even if it was a case of tenants or debtors going after landlords or creditors. Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #30
  • Soon the association was strong enough to boycott local landlords who were evicting their tenants and offering the land to others at increased rents.
  • In the case of periodic tenancies the legislature left landlords free to bring them to an end by the service and expiry of valid notices to quit.
  • Should "landlordism" in Ireland be supplanted by home rule? Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
  • The landlord could be forced to pay compensation equal to three times the sum of the deposit. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Servian action is that by which a landlord sues for his tenant's property, over which he has a right in the nature of mortgage as security for his rent; the quasi-Servian is a similar remedy, open to every pledgee or hypothecary creditor. The Institutes of Justinian
  • There may also be differences in premiums for a publican and a landlord, or a barrister and lawyer. Times, Sunday Times
  • As if all that were not trouble enough, the landlord lets a goat loose in the flat.
  • In this case the subtenant had covenanted with his landlord that he would repair the property.
  • Many small farms were indeed still let to some cottagers at rack-rent, which cottages had the right of commonage, guaranteed to them in their leases; but afterwards the commons were enclosed, and no recompense was made to the tenants by the landlords. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
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